“My heart is in my throat at this point. I am a young guy, 27 years old, and I’m there trying to ad lib that the president of the United States has been shot, perhaps fatally.”
Johnson stayed on the air until the ABC national feed came back with more information.
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November 25, 2022 at QZVX
T.K. says:
Listening to that segment again, I realized the tag at the end is a bit misleading. Johnson makes it fairly clear that he announced the shooting (perhaps fatal), not the actual death report. By the time that news came down, ABC (and all the other nets) were in wall-to-wall coverage.