Big Baxter

Shot in the act – the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald

On 24 November 1963 my father Jack Spackman was working on The Telegraph in Sydney when he experienced what he described as one of his most exciting moments as a journalist. It was close to deadline and the front page story was to be the latest dramatic twist in the events sparked two days earlier when a gunman, crouched in a sixth-floor window, fired the shots which still reverberate more than 50 years later. Continue reading →