Bill Mercer broke the news to Lee Harvey Oswald on camera that he'd been charged with murdering the president, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.
Mercer covered many other sports on the radio, including baseball, football and basketball. He was the color commentator for seven years of CBS Radio's broadcast of the Cotton Bowl Classic. In 1967, he called the 1967 NFL Championship game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. He also called the Cowboys' second Super Bowl appearance.
