Newman specialized in reporting breaking news . In 1963 , he made the first announcement on NBC Radio of President John F. Kennedy 's death . He anchored the television coverage of the 1967 Six-Day Arab-Israeli War , the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the 1973 Vietnam ceasefire . In 1981 , immediately after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan , he was chosen to anchor NBC 's television coverage until full news teams were mustered
John F. Kennedy 's death
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Edwin Newman