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The minutes, hours, and days after President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, provided no ready answers about what was going on, what would happen next, or what any of it meant. For millions of Americans transfixed by the incomparable breaking news, television - for the first time - emerged as a way to keep informed. But the journalists who brought the story to the television airwaves could only rely on their skill, their experience, and their stamina to make sense of what was, at the time, the biggest story of their lives. President Kennedy's assassination was the first time such big breaking news was covered spontaneously - this book tells the stories of four men who were at the epicenter of it all. Bob Huffaker, Bill Mercer, George Phenix, and Wes Wise were among those responsible for covering the assassination and its aftermath for Dallas's KRLD.
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His wife, Dr. Veva R. Vonler, president of the Visual Arts Society of Texas, past chapter president of American Association of University Women, is retired after a career as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Texas Womans University, where she still teaches poetry. Their son Kevin Huffaker is a sculptor (MonkeyAnvil.com) and Director of Classroom Technologies at Texas State University. Their son Zachary Vonler, who served as a Navy medical corpsman, is a software architect in Austin.
