- Ike Pappas
Icarus Nestor "Ike" Pappas (
April 16 ,1933 —August 31 ,2008 ) was aCBS News correspondent for twenty-five years.cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/02/obit.pappas.ap/index.html|title=CBS' Ike Pappas, saw Oswald shooting, dies at 75|publisher=CNN|accessdate=2008-09-02]Life and career
Pappas was born in the
Flushing, Queens section ofNew York City . He graduated fromLong Island University and then spent two years in theUnited States Army . He was assigned to "Stars and Stripes " during his enlistment.Pappas was present when
Lee Harvey Oswald was fatally shot byJack Ruby , reporting "There's a shot! Oswald has been shot! Oswald has been shot! A shot rang out. Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!"He was the most prominent of 215 people laid off in 1987 during
downsizing at CBS.Boyer, Peter J. (March 7, 1987). [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DD103BF934A35750C0A961948260&scp=3&sq=ike%20pappas%20cbs%201987&st=cse 14 Reporters among 215 Cut by CBS.] "New York Times "]A resident of McLean,
Virginia , in his later years, he died in Arlington, Virginia, ofcongestive heart failure .Weber, Bruce (September 2, 2008). [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/business/media/03pappas.html Ike Pappas, a Newsman With a Long Career at CBS, Dies at 75.] "New York Times "]References
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