Nightly News | December 05, 2012
Jack Brooks, former congressman, dies at 89
Brooks, a former Texas congressman who fought against government waste and was riding in the motorcade the day President Kennedy was assassinated, spent more than 42 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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>>> and jack brooks has died, had was a student of texas, an enemy of richard nixon , attacked government waste all his life. he was pro labor, pro guns and pro district funds. he was in the vehicle when president kennedy was killed in dallas, he was among the giants in congress, over 42 combative years in the house of representatives . jack brooks was eighty-nine years old.