As a CBS News bureau chief in Dallas in 1963, he covered the Kennedy assassination
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Rather was Chief of CBS's Southern bureau at the time and was in... [DOC] [TLE] OLD 48 bio rather - CBS News [PAR] Also in 1995, he covered the 50th anniversary of V-E Day from London, and then 
... Rather joined CBS News in 1962 as chief of its Southwest bureau in Dallas.