NPC Oral History: Ike Pappas on the Kennedy Assassination

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Ike Pappas, a radio correspondent in 1963 for WNEW-AM in New York, discusses his coverage of the JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald assassinations in Dallas on Nov. 22 and Nov. 24, 1963, respectively. This excerpt is presented in observance of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's death.
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Ike Papas, the great reporter that he supposedly was, had already formed a picture in his head before the assassination.
Oswald was a communist not an anti civil rights bigot.
The truth doesn’t fit with their tireless narrative even years later!

jeffearle
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Terrific interview of Ike Pappas. Well done.

KNEW
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the dread, the horror, the sadness
we miss u jack...n jackie.
2gether at last.

jansmiths
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A few things - Oswald didn't say all of those things in the Midnight press conference. Ruby didn't go around Pappas to shoot Oswald, he stepped around Blackie Harrison, the cop with the cigar to do it. It's clear in post-shooting footage that no cop drew weapons nor that there was a car backfire. Anyone in Pappas' situation ought to have been more careful with how they recall such events - it's the price and responsibility of being a witness to history. The statements he gave to the DPD and FBI after Oswald's shooting do not line up...

In his 1st statement (of 2) to the FBI he didn't mention being up on the 3rd Floor yet, 9 days later, when providing a statement to the DPD he did say he was on the 3rd Floor as Oswald's transfer began. He said he even asked Oswald a question (why didn't Pappas mention this in this NPC interview?). He also said he took the same elevator Oswald would be brought down in to the basement to be there before Oswald was. Yet in his 2nd interview to the FBI, he said that when Oswald was put in the elevator, he and another reporter raced down the stairs (which didn't lead directly down to the basement) and some how got down there before he did. Why such errors and discrepancies?

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CBS reporters were always straight up and serious in their on-air delivery. It's interesting to see him talk about that episode in personal tones.

brianarbenz