Alistair Cook's Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Alistair Cook was at the Ambassador Hotel that night on assignment when he was shot three times by 24-year-old Sir Hans Sirhan. His retelling of that night's events on his radio show Letter From America was just one of a lifetime of memorable broadcasts from the British-born journalist. 36 years later, in March 2004, on advice from his doctor, Cook finally stepped away from the longest running spoken word radio show in history,. and retired at the age of 95. Alistair Cook died less than a month later from lung cancer, which had spread to his bones. The paperwork on file for Cook's tissues listed his cause of death as a heart attack instead of cancer