Dan Rather
 Dan Rather           (TV presenter) | |
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| Born | 1931-10-31 Wharton School of Business, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Sam Houston State University |
| Children | • Robin Rather • Danjack Rather |
| Spouse | Jean Goebel |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3 |
Former US journalist and news anchor. While generally reliably staying within the Overton window of accepted opinions, he was set up and fired in 2004 after showing insufficient patriotism after 911.
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Dan Irvin Rather Jr. is a former US journalist and news anchor. While generally reliably staying within the Overton window of accepted opinions, he was set up and fired in 2004 after showing insufficient patriotism after 911.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Contents
September 11, 2001
On the day of 9-11, Dan Rather reported on both the Dancing Israelis and the George Washington Bridge plot.
JFK Assassination
- Full article: JFK/Assassination
- Full article: JFK/Assassination
Dan Rather was the only reporter to view the Zapruder film the day after the assassination. He issued an erroneous statement concerning the film.[1]
Entrapped and fired
After being accused of insufficient patriotism after 9/11, Rather was entrapped to present false documents, in what is known as The Killian documents (also referred to as Memogate or Rathergate[2][3]).
Rather created a great deal of controversy when he said on BBC Newsnight (16th May, 2002): "It is an obscene comparison - you know, I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions, and to continue to bore in on the tough questions so often. And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism."[4]
The Killian documents involved six documents containing false allegations about President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard in 1972–73, allegedly typed in 1973. Dan Rather presented four of these documents[5] as authentic in a 60 Minutes II broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 presidential election, but it was later found that CBS had failed to authenticate them.[6][7][8] Several typewriter and typography experts soon concluded that they were forgeries.[9] Lt. Col. Bill Burkett provided the documents to CBS, but he claims to have burned the originals after faxing them copies.[10]
While the alcoholic cokehead George W. Bush served in the Guard as a cushy alternative to the Vietnam war, and that that undue influence had been exerted on Bush's behalf, broadly speaking are true, these documents were forgeries. After the documents almost immediately after publication were shown to be false, CBS established a review panel "to help determine what errors occurred in the preparation of the report and what actions need to be taken".[11] Dan Rather announced on November 23, 2004, that he would step down in early 2005 and on March 9, his 24th anniversary as anchor, he left the network.
A Quote by Dan Rather
| Page | Quote | Source |
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| CBS | “Two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of explosives were discovered around the George Washington Bridge. That bridge links New York to New Jersey over the Hudson River. Whether the discovery of those explosives has anything to do with other events today is unclear, but the FBI, has two suspects in hand, said the truckload of explosives, enough explosives were in the truck to do great damage to the George Washington Bridge.” | YouTube |
Event Witnessed
| Event | Location(s) | Description |
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| Vietnam War | Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand | The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like. |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140402170519/http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=581
- ↑ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2005/02/whos-got-the-power/
- ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/tags/rathergate.html
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
- ↑ Two entitled "Memo to File," one "Memorandum," and one "Memorandum for Record," see here [1] for PDF versions at the Washington Post website.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110514062505/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18982-2004Sep13?language=printer
- ↑ https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/Story?id=131423&page=1
- ↑ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6807825
- ↑ Including Peter Tytell, Thomas Phinney, and Joseph Newcomer, a man with 35 years of computer font technology experience. See: Last, Jonathan. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/124mrhci.asp?pg=1
- ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-09-21-cover-guard_x.htm
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/22/politics/main644969.shtml
