Ron Cochran

Ron Cochran (September 20, 1912 – July 25, 1994) was a Canadian-born American television news journalist who worked for ABC and CBS.

[3] Cochran worked as a reporter for the Rock Island Argus before an audition resulted in a job broadcasting news for radio station WHBF, which was owned by the newspaper's management.

[5] As previously noted, Cochran was the main anchor of ABC's break in coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Cochran announced the death of President Kennedy as "confirmed" and ABC News ran a graphic showing Kennedy's picture and the dates 1917-1963 after a wire service report came to him that "government sources in Washington" had stated the President was dead, something both CBS' Walter Cronkite and NBC's Bill Ryan chose not to do.

This wire report came to Cochran several minutes before assistant press secretary Malcolm Kilduff officially announced the President's death.