Dan Rather cut out of CBS's JFK 50th anniversary events

Dan Rather cut out of CBS's JFK 50th anniversary events, Dan Rather has not been asked by his longtime network, CBS, to join their coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy.

When President John F. Kennedy was killed nearly 50 years ago, Dan Rather was an anchor on air for CBS News. Now, as the network prepares to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination, Rather won't be part of their coverage.

Rather and CBS parted ways inamicably in 2006, and after waiting to hear if CBS would invite him to take part in their high-profile commemoration of the assassination on November 22, Rather took his memories elsewhere.

The longtime anchor will appear on NBC on the anniversary, joining Tom Brokaw on a special Today show. He has been interviewed for a segment on CNN's series The Sixties to air on the same day and has also been in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where Kennedy was shot, filming an hour special for his AXS TV show, Dan Rather Reports, to air on November 18.

CBS had not said if they would use footage of Rather in their own coverage of the assassination's anniversary.