Post by Colin Anderton on Dec 6, 2008 9:18:32 GMT
I have just re-read the following item about John Roberts, the "mystery man" who popped up on screen on the night of Kennedy's assassination:
www.independent.co.uk/news/media/how-the-kennedy-assassination-caught-the-bbc-on-the-hop-736162.html
Reading this article, one would think that this chap appeared only on the night of the murder. Well, on Thursday night I was watching a programme I recorded a few years ago, called "Christine Keeler - Sex Bomb", obviously a programme about the Profumo affair.
When Stephen Ward died, following an overdose, who should I see announcing his death? None other than John Roberts - and this was three months before the Kennedy assassination!
So he must have been a regular newsreader, surely? Although I certainly have no memory of him on screen at the time.
Mind you, we had an aerial problem at that time, and could only receive a snowy BBC picture, so most of the time - including 22-11-63 - we watched ITV.
Any further information on John Roberts?
Colin.
www.independent.co.uk/news/media/how-the-kennedy-assassination-caught-the-bbc-on-the-hop-736162.html
Reading this article, one would think that this chap appeared only on the night of the murder. Well, on Thursday night I was watching a programme I recorded a few years ago, called "Christine Keeler - Sex Bomb", obviously a programme about the Profumo affair.
When Stephen Ward died, following an overdose, who should I see announcing his death? None other than John Roberts - and this was three months before the Kennedy assassination!
So he must have been a regular newsreader, surely? Although I certainly have no memory of him on screen at the time.
Mind you, we had an aerial problem at that time, and could only receive a snowy BBC picture, so most of the time - including 22-11-63 - we watched ITV.
Any further information on John Roberts?
Colin.