Bob Schieffer on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

News anchor/correspondent Bob Schieffer tells an amazing story of his experiences during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Schieffer was a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. When he answered a phone call in the newspaper's offices that day, he found himself in the middle of the story in a very surprising way:

"A woman on the phone said, 'Is there anybody there that can give me a ride to Dallas?' And I said, 'Well, lady, you know, we don’t run the taxi service here and besides our president’s been shot.' And she said, 'Yes, I heard it on the radio. I think my son is the one who shot him.' It was Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother. Why in the world she would call the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' we don’t know to this day, but she did, just looking for a ride...I asked [another reporter] what kind of a car he had, and he said a Cadillac. And so the two of us took that Cadillac out to the address she had given me and we picked her up. I got in the back seat with her. And we drove her to Dallas."

Watch Bob Schieffer’s full interview, where he discusses his career from reporting on the assassination of President Kennedy to hosting Face the Nation.

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