Bogus memos may have been Dan Rather’s downfall, but it certainly wasn’t his first foray into outright political fraud. Apparently, in 1963, Dan Rather lied when he reported that a group of school children cheered the assassination of President Kennedy:

The tale was perfect for the moment, reinforcing the notion among distant media elites that Dallas was a reactionary “City of Hate.” It slyly played to a local audience, too: The school named was in upper-income University Park, one of two adjacent municipal enclaves that shared a school district and a reputation for fiercely protected, lily-white privilege.

So, if Rather’s four-decades-plus career is capped on each end by politically-motivated lies, it’s natural to wonder how many times in between he’s gotten away with it.