RIP Bill Mercer

[Blehschmidt]

The voice of World Class Championship Wrestling. A man who also covered the assassination of JFK for the Dallas news, and was actually the person who informed Lee Harvey Oswald he was being charged with the murder, has passed away at 99 years of age!

[kevinmcfl]

What a life.  Loved him in World Class.  RIP

[rainmakerrtv]

A grand part of the legacy of WCCW. Was he the guy who basically trash talked Gino after he died?

[NintendoLogic]

I don't know if he trash talked Gino, but he said something to the effect of "We've had two terrible tragedies this past week: Chris Adams is blind and Gino Hernandez is dead" on World Class TV after Gino died (they had just done an angle where Gino blinded Adams with Freebird hair cream). Of course, you can't really hold that against him since he was just following orders.

[flyonthewall2983]

I had no idea he interviewed Oswald, until The Iron Claw movie was released and it was mentioned somewhere and I watched the footage. Lee wasn’t to thrilled to be talking on camera I could tell as much.