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“My CG 161-1203 RKM: bls a On August 5, 1965, ¢ ' Lake Forest, Illin . roadcasti System, Chicago, inois, advised as follows: > His first recollection of JOHN WILLIAM CHANCELLOR was aS a very bright young man with some journalistic experience inthe News Department of NBC, Chicago, in the - early 1950s, also in the early days of television, CHANCELLOR was assigned to a program called Night Desk wherein they tried to do on-the-spot: -: televising and broadcasting of news in the making. While . SO assigned, there was an instance of a policeman being shot at an elevated station, The manhunt ensued, and the killer was trapped in a theater but shot his way out. He was again located this time in an apartment, and CHANCELLOR, his driver and mobile unit chanced to arrive there shortly thereafter. CHANCELLOR took some coverage back of an automobile and broadcast an eyewitness account of the bullet ridden affray leading to the capture of the killer. He did such a good job in a situation of personal danger that he caught the attention of his superiors. Later, dates not recalled, he was transferred to New York and later worked in London, ollowed appointee's career after he left Chica f seeing him in New York when there on business trips and thereafter hearing of him through mutual acquaintances, - - He sent appoin ea :-::: had any outside or social contact wi a ee; recalls nothing of his background prior to NBC and never knew his family, He has a hazy idea appointee was married once and that this marriage pl © broke up, but he has no recollection of anything in connection with this dissolvement which would reflect against appointee. He has never known appointee to be in any trouble with law enforcement or to have ever been arrested, If there were any boyhood pranks in his past, he is believed to have outgrown _ them-and has become a “pretty solid guy". There is no question gf his good morals, He is patriotic and loyal to ~ Vey ay frat