ShopTalk | Top 10 Eddie Barker, Dallas Reporter Who Broke the News of JFK’s Death, Dies By Merrill Knox on Jul. 24, 2012 - 2:05 PM Eddie Barker (left), the first reporter to announce the news of President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination in 1963, died Monday at a Dallas nursing home. He was 84. At the time of Kennedy’s death, Barker was the news di ...