It was at the "Star Telegram" that he received his first major journalistic recognition when John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Shortly after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, Schieffer was in the "Star-Telegram" office and received a telephone call from a woman in search of a ride to Dallas. The woman was Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, whom he accompanied to the Dallas police station, where he spent the next several hours. In the company of Oswald's mother, Marguerite, and his wife, Marina, he was able to use the phone in the police station to call in dispatches from other "Star-Telegram" reporters in the building. This enabled the "Star-Telegram" to create four "Extra" editions on the day of the assassination. Schieffer later joined the "Star-Telegram"'s television station, WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, before taking a job with CBS in 1969.