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Then, at 7:55 p.m. (E.W.T.), the Associated Press sent a bulletin from San Francisco: "Germany has surrendered. . . [says] a high American official." Radio newscasters pounced on the flash and boosted it across the land. The story, by A.P.'s reliable Jack Bell, went on to say that the surrender was actually to have been announced earlier, but was unavoidably delayed...
Newspapermen would long debate how much of the blame belonged to the A.P. The red-faced A.P. treasured one technical defense: it had not sent the Connally story out as a flash (as such news deserved, if the A.P. were unreservedly vouching for it) but only as a bulletin. And the bulletin carried a hedge, "announcement is expected momentarily," which did not justify the unqualified headlines...
Rockefeller Jr., lost his individualistic Army-grown mustache when it was badly singed by flash burns in a Jap air attack off Okinawa. In a hospital on Guam with hand and face burns that will leave no scars, he pronounced himself "very lucky...
...press was himself an able, veteran newsman-Steve Early. Taking over from Jonathan Daniels, his successor as White House press secretary, who was shaking and white-faced with shock, Early quickly set up a three-way call to the press associations to tell them simultaneously: "Here is a flash. The President died suddenly early this afternoon...
...with five full pages on Roosevelt's career which had been set up in type in advance. Many U.S. newspapers were similarly forearmed, and slip-ups were few. But on Hearst's San Antonio Light, a Mexican copy boy who could not read English clipped the news flash off the teletype and hung it on a hook at the news desk, where it lay unnoticed for 20 minutes. The news hit the Oklahoma City Times just as it was tearing up its forms to report a tornado...