[2] When Trueman was 23, he moved to the Montreal Star to be their New York City-based columnist and would cover the assassination of John F. Kennedy for the paper.
In his memoirs, he recalled being ordered to censor the CBC's coverage of the crisis: "We were to avoid commentary and speculation of all kinds.
[4] Trueman later apologised for not challenging the CBC's censorship and for reprimanding the reporter saying, "I should have given Ralfe a medal.
[1] Trueman briefly left Global in 1977 to join rival network CTV, becoming one of the co-hosts of CTV Reports, a short-lived, unsuccessful attempt to replace two of the network's news magazine/documentary shows, W5 and Maclear; within a few months, Trueman would return to Global.
He later joined Vision TV to host a 26-part series called North-South about Canada's relation to the Third World.
[6] Trueman also served as host and managing editor of the Discovery Channel's award-winning series Great Canadian Parks in 1996 and oversaw a series of documentaries for the History Channel featuring national historic sites.