call thomas was a copy boy. was in the newsroom as the story broke and joins us with how broadcast has changed thank you for being here. copy boy. things called teletypes then when the news was printed on rolls of paper and i ripped it off and gave it to the correspondents in the washington bureau and managed to save the initial stories that said flash, president kennedy dead. in this little book that i also got called four days which compiles the great reporting by merryman. they only had radio telephones in the car. smith was two cars behind the presidential motorcade and he had to telephone in this radio telephone the first reports the president had been shot. when he got to parkland hospital he had it to come man cam man deer old fashioned telephone had to dial 9 to get outside. had to find a pay phone after that near the operating room the emergency room the president was