<<<"I know Dan Rather is right," Marian Carr Knox, a former secretary in Bush's Guard unit, recalled saying. The neighbor said she should do something about it. So she called a Houston newspaper, Knox told CBS, but did not get a call back. Dallas Morning News reporter Pete Slover soon tracked down Knox and showed her copies of the Killian memos.
"These are not real," declared Knox, who said she handled Killian's memos. "They're not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him."
When a "60 Minutes" staffer showed Howard an online version of the Morning News story Tuesday night, "my initial reaction was not, 'Oh, my God, we're wrong,' " he said. But he immediately recognized that his program had to take her account seriously.
CBS got hold of Knox and had her on a plane to New York on Wednesday. Rather started the hour-long interview at 4 p.m., and while Knox said the underlying story was true -- that Killian had made such comments about Lt. Bush -- she insisted the memos were fake. Mapes had three hours to edit the interview for that night's "60 Minutes.">>>
To look on the bright side, an 86 year old lady had the time of her life- a pre-paid trip to New York City, the capital of the free world, and an hour long conference with Mr Big himself- Dan Rather.
It was a shame her honesty got in the way of being a help, since she had to tell him the letters were fakes.
But Dan was able to establish that the gist of the letters was true - that Killian could possibly have written words shown in those memos.
However, since Killian did not type, and the secretary did not type the memos then who did?
Dan did not ask her if Killian could also have written words from Little Red Riding Hood or Treasure Island, because that would have confused people in his audience with an IQ of less than 68 when Knox answered yes.
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