ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Saturday, December 23, 1995 TAG: 9512250017
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Tom Pettit, an award-winning TV reporter who was the only broadcaster on the scene and on the air when Lee Harvey Oswald was killed in Dallas, died Friday after surgery to repair a ruptured aorta. He was 64.
Pettit, who retired from NBC News this year, captured three Emmys, a Peabody and the Polk Memorial Award during a career that stretched from the Eisenhower era to the Clinton administration.
``For more than a generation, Tom Pettit represented NBC News with skill and style,'' said NBC News Vice President Bill Wheatley.
- Associated Press
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