The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

The feed then switched to Dallas with Barker reporting about the incident and the meeting that was to take place. I was and I am proud of it. ".

He reported many events from 1937 to 1981 including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War;Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the murders of President John F. Kennedy civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.