[TR] Celebrity Triumph?

[Don Hiscock]

Walter Cronkite, fellow CBS newsman later in Bob Schieffer's career, and
one who doubtlessly did make a fair living, was a well-known TR3 driver
(and occasional racer).  There's a good photo of Uncle Walter and his TR3
in Mike Cook's "Triumph Cars in America", p43.

And an update on another Cronkite car, a 1972 TR6, here:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/16/4415189/doc-morey-restored-the-triumph.html


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, <pethier at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
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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
>
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