Editing Bob Schieffer (section)

==Early career==

After graduating from TCU, Schieffer served in the [[United States Air Force]] for three years as a public information officer stationed at [[Travis Air Force Base]] and later [[McChord Air Force Base]].<ref>''This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV'' by Bob Schieffer</ref> He was honorably discharged and joined the ''[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]]'' as a reporter, with one of his key assignments being a trip to [[Vietnam]] to profile soldiers from the Fort Worth area. Schieffer was the first reporter from a Texas newspaper who reported from Vietnam.<ref name=":0" />

It was at the ''Star Telegram'' that he received his first major journalistic recognition when John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.<ref name=marriage>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/details.asp?aID=10278& |title=So What Do You Do, Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News? |publisher=Mediabistro |date=August 25, 2008 |first=Alissa |last=Krinsky |access-date=December 25, 2014}}</ref> Shortly after [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] was [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|shot]] in [[Dallas]], Texas, Schieffer was in the ''Star-Telegram'' office and received a telephone call from a woman in search of a ride to Dallas. The woman was Marguerite Oswald, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]'s mother, whom he accompanied to the Dallas police station, where he spent the next several hours. In the company of Oswald's mother, Marguerite, and his wife, Marina, he was able to use the phone in the police station to call in dispatches from other ''Star-Telegram'' reporters in the building. This enabled the ''Star-Telegram'' to create four "Extra" editions on the day of the assassination.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} Schieffer later joined the ''Star-Telegram'''s television station, [[KXAS-TV|WBAP-TV]] in Fort Worth, before taking a job with CBS in 1969.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffer-08-07-1998/|title=Bob Schieffer|date=8 July 1998|first=Mary-Jayne|last=McKay |website=CBS News|language=en|access-date=2020-01-27}}</ref>