Editing Dan Rather (section)

=== From Dallas CBS news director Eddie Barker ===
In the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination while Rather was a Dallas reporter, he interviewed a minister, who said some local schoolchildren had cheered upon learning of the President's shooting. The Associated Press later confirmed the story. A teacher at the school backed up the Rather story, confirming that some students at the school had cheered at the principal's news about Kennedy.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Morning Record| date=November 27, 1963 |agency=AP |title=Dallas Students Cheer Shooting of Kennedy }}</ref> [[Eddie Barker]], local Dallas-area news director for CBS, claimed that the children were merely happy about being sent home early, and he also claimed that they had not been given a reason for early school closure (Barker's children attended the school). Barker alleged that Rather had deliberately misrepresented the facts by indicating that the children were happy about the shooting. Barker attempted to fire Rather, but was overruled by the national CBS News management.<ref name="WeeklyStandardCBS">Philip Chalk, ''[https://archive.today/20130105134742/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/324nfvwe.asp Wrong from the Beginning: Even in 1963, Dan Rather was a poor excuse for a newsman]'', ''The Weekly Standard'', March 14, 2005.</ref>