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floor of the building at the same time. The encounter was seconds after the shooting.
A young journalist had the run-in of his career on the day of President Kennedy's assassination but he didn't even know it.
Pierce Allman was a rookie reporter when he accidentally ran into Lee Harvey Oswald in the moments immediately after President Kennedy was shot.
'He didn't appear stressed in any way,' Allman said of Oswald.
Allman was in the crowd when shots were fired at the President's motorcade, and he saw people leaning out the fifth-floor windows of the Texas School Book Depository and looking up to the level above.
'There were three guys in the fifth floor window. And they were literally hanging out of the window and looking up and pointing up,' Allman told CBS.
'I thought, "I need to get to a phone and call." So I ran down the sidewalk and up the steps and into the doorway of the depository building.'
As soon as he got into the building, he realized that he needed help finding a phone in the building so he could file the report.
'There was a guy standing in the doorway, and I said, "Where's the phone?" And he jerked his thumb and said, "In there!" And I said, "Thank you,"’ he told CBS.
The moment was so fleeting that even though Oswald's picture was splashed across the papers and television news programs in the coming days, Allman did not realize that Oswald was the man he spoke to until three weeks later.
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A young journalist had the run-in of his career on the day of President Kennedy's assassination but he didn't even know it.
Pierce Allman was a rookie reporter when he accidentally ran into Lee Harvey Oswald in the moments immediately after President Kennedy was shot.
'He didn't appear stressed in any way,' Allman said of Oswald.
Allman was in the crowd when shots were fired at the President's motorcade, and he saw people leaning out the fifth-floor windows of the Texas School Book Depository and looking up to the level above.
'There were three guys in the fifth floor window. And they were literally hanging out of the window and looking up and pointing up,' Allman told CBS.
'I thought, "I need to get to a phone and call." So I ran down the sidewalk and up the steps and into the doorway of the depository building.'
As soon as he got into the building, he realized that he needed help finding a phone in the building so he could file the report.
'There was a guy standing in the doorway, and I said, "Where's the phone?" And he jerked his thumb and said, "In there!" And I said, "Thank you,"’ he told CBS.
The moment was so fleeting that even though Oswald's picture was splashed across the papers and television news programs in the coming days, Allman did not realize that Oswald was the man he spoke to until three weeks later.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511848/How-Lee-Harv ey-Oswald-helped-reporter-telephone-chance-encounter-just-se conds-shot-JFK.html#ixzz2lVXv7Iu8 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511848/How-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-helped-reporter-telephone-chance-encounter-just-seconds-shot-JFK.html#ixzz2lVXv7Iu8)
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