Alan Jackson (broadcaster)
- Alan Jackson (broadcaster)
Alan Jackson was a United States broadcaster. He was the head anchor at CBS Radio News in New York City for over twenty-five years beginning during the Second World War, reading the 6:00 PM national evening news (then the network's main news program) and anchoring coverage of many of the major news headlines of the day. He anchored CBS News's coverage of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, of the joining of US and Soviet forces in April of 1945, and of V-E Day in May of that year.
He is thought to have been the first newscaster to announce the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. According to Dan Rather in his book "The Camera Never Blinks", Rather advised Jackson from Dallas that there were unconfirmed reports that the President was dead; Jackson immediately went on air with the announcement, reporting Kennedy's death as a fact (which had not yet been confirmed, although it was true that Kennedy was already dead), and playing "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Alan Jackson retired from CBS in or before 1981.
References and external links
* [http://www.earthstation1.com/JFKAssassination.html Earth Station 1 coverage of the Kennedy assassination] , including clips of Alan Jackson's announcement
** [http://www.earthstation1.com/Kennedys/JFKAssassination06jfk300.ram Real Audio file of the announcement] from Earth Station 1
* [http://www.wrpi.org/info/history/text/dahm.html History of WRPI Radio's Herb Dahm,] including a visit to CBS New York
* [http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p3.cgi?ArtistName=Jackson,+Alan&ArtistNumber=00540 List of Alan Jackson broadcasts] from RadioGoldindex.com
*Dan Rather, "The Camera Never Blinks", Ballantine Books, New York, 1978 ISBN 0-345-27423-7
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