[TR] Celebrity Triumph?

[pethier at comcast.net]

I'm guessing he didn't make a lot of money then and the car was a TR3.

Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1973 Triumph Stag LE22439UBW "uncle jack", Sapphire Blue
2004 Suburban 8.1, Sport Red, the only automatic of the bunch
2005 Lotus Elise, Bordeaux Red Pearl
2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4, Berry Red
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----- Original Message -----
> From: wbeech at flash.net
> To: "Triumphs" <Triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 9:12:08 AM
> Subject: [TR] Celebrity Triumph?
> Watching the CBS morning news show with Charlie Rose & Co., they had
> Bob
> Schieffer on and were talking about the day of the Kennedy
> assassination.
> Please no political or theory comments, Bob was a reporter at the Fort
> Worth
> Star-Telegram at the time and he said one of the many phone calls he
> took
> that afternoon turned out to be from Lee Oswald's mother who needed a
> ride
> to Dallas.
> 
> Now to the TR content: Schieffer said, "I had a Triumph sports car,
> just a
> two-seater, so my editor drove in his car while I sat in the back with
> Mrs.
> Oswald" (this is a very close paraphrase). So, in November of 1963 CBS
> correspondent Bob Schieffer had a Triumph, most likely at TR3 or new
> TR4.
> Anyone else catch this? Anyone know anything of the car he owned?
> (Maybe
> the Red River guys have it squirreled away somewhere?)
> 
> Bill
> 
> Bill Beecher