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December 13, 1963
Mr. J. E. Curry
Chief of Police
Subject: Explanation of News Coverage
on Date of Oswald shooting.
This information obtained from Bert Shipp, WFFA-TV.
WBAP - is an NBC Station and it was WBAP that had a live
camera in the City Hall basement. The WBAP crew did the
live pick-up and fed it to both NBC & CBS.
KRLD was at the courthouse to do a live pick-up for both
NBC AND CBS.
KRLD is a CBS Station doing the pick-up live which was
fed to both networks on a pool basis.
Neither CBS nor NBC actually had live cameras there.
KRLD and WBAP did the live pick-up for the network.
Jim Davidson and Warren Ferguson both shot film for
ABC, the network which had no live cameras there.
WFAA-TV had no one in the basement. WFAA Radio had one
man with a tape recorder. He was Bob Thornton.
Respectfully submitted,
P. G. McCaghren, Lieutenant
Burglary & Theft Bureau
PGM:nw
90-A
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