Nearly 60 years ago, local CBS reporter Bill Mercer broke the news to Lee Harvey Oswald on camera that he had been charged with murdering President John F. Kennedy. That camera is now in a Dallas museum.
on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, reporters from all over the world crammed into Dallas police headquarters to try and interview the suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mercer had just received a tip from an officer that Oswald had formally been charged with murdering the president, something that Oswald didn't even know, until Mercer broke the news to him on camera."And he looked at me, 'What?'" the now 97-year-old Mercer recounted to CBS News this week."And I said, 'You have been charged with the murder of the president.
Nearly 60 years later, Camera No. 3 from that interview finally belongs to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, which chronicles the Kennedy assassination."This is particularly special because we have the footage, we have the artifact, and we have the man who was reporting that news," Nicola Longford, Sixth Floor Museum CEO, said.
"We need to have physical items that animate people's imaginations and try to step back into a historic moment," Longford said.
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