Ike Pappas

Icarus Nestor Pappas (April 16, 1933 – August 31, 2008), better known as Ike Pappas, was an American television journalist who worked as a CBS News correspondent for 25 years. Life and career Pappas was born in the Flushing, Queens, section of New York City. He graduated from Long Island University and then spent two years in the United States Army. He was assigned to Stars and Stripes during his enlistment. Dallas, Texas, November 24, 1963 That morning, Pappas was among the throng of reporters present at the Dallas City Jail for presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's transfer to the County Jail. Working for WNEW-AM in New York at the time, Pappas began his report as Oswald came into view: As Pappas asked Oswald the question, Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd of reporters with a pistol, moved in front of Oswald and fired one shot into Oswald's abdomen.