Jim Lehrer's JFK

Jim Lehrer covered the Kennedy assassination for the ‘Dallas Times Herald’ before joining KERA and, ultimately, PBS. And when he’s not bringing you the news, he’s busy writing – most recently, a novel about JFK.

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November 22, 1963

Hugh Aynesworth wasn’t assigned to cover the Dallas visit of President John F. Kennedy. But the ‘Dallas Morning News’ reporter, then 32, saw the president’s assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrest and the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby.

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