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===JFK assassination=== Reasoner took part in covering the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy assassination]] on Friday, November 22, 1963. [[Walter Cronkite]] and [[Charles Collingwood (journalist)|Charles Collingwood]] had been switching back and forth to report on the incident for about four hours after Cronkite broke the news at 1:40 p.m. EST. Reasoner took over the anchor chair after Collingwood tossed it to him at 5:49 p.m. EST and opened with the repeat of an announcement by [[Frank Stanton (executive)|Frank Stanton]], the president of CBS, which had already been relayed by Collingwood: {{blockquote|Thank you, Charles. As you know, CBS has announced that there will be no commercial announcements and no entertainment programming until [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy's funeral]].}} He later reported on the arrival of [[President Kennedy]]'s body in [[Washington, D.C.]], and provided details regarding [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], who was then accused only of killing [[Dallas]] Police Officer [[J. D. Tippit]]; Oswald would be accused of killing the president only hours later. Reasoner left the desk when Cronkite returned to anchor ''[[CBS Evening News]]'' at 6:35 p.m. EST. He reappeared in another studio, approximately two hours later, to narrate a special program called ''John F. Kennedy—A Man of This Century''; he talked about Kennedy's career and the new president, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], and announced the conclusion of CBS's coverage for that day. (Reasoner also anchored the final coverage of the next day, with a CBS News special, titled ''A Day to Mourn''.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newcanaanlibrary.org/research/salant_room/Salant%20Documents%20Adobe/Salant%20-%20Kennedy%20Assassination%20-%20Acid%20Free.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814032445/http://newcanaanlibrary.org/research/salant_room/Salant%20Documents%20Adobe/Salant%20-%20Kennedy%20Assassination%20-%20Acid%20Free.pdf |archive-date=2010-08-14 }}</ref> Reasoner's next appearance came on Sunday, two days later, and as Reasoner was at the anchor desk, Oswald was shot by [[Jack Ruby]] while he was being moved in the Dallas City Jail. At that very moment, [[Roger Mudd]] was filing a report from Washington which described the President's funeral arrangements: {{blockquote|Tomorrow there will be a final hour for the public to pay their final respects to the President before the President leaves Capitol Hill for the last time. The last soldier, milit—}} At that moment, CBS abruptly cut back to Reasoner at the newsroom anchor desk with breaking news: {{blockquote|We are now switching to Dallas where they're about to move Lee Oswald, and where there's a scuffle in the police station.}} When CBS picked up [[KDFW|KRLD]]'s live feed of the city jail basement, Oswald was lying on the floor, and Dallas Police were apprehending Ruby. KRLD's reporter on the scene, Bob Huffaker, was heard to say, "Oswald has been shot, Oswald has been shot." After the ambulance carrying Oswald sped out of the jail en route to [[Parkland Hospital]], KRLD switched back to CBS in New York, where Reasoner replayed the tape from the beginning so that viewers could see Ruby shooting Oswald. Several minutes later, he reported that the Dallas Police had released Ruby's name. (Oswald's death was later announced by Cronkite, who replaced Reasoner at the anchor desk.)
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