COMMENTS: White Supremacist Prison Gang Attracts Speculation
The mystery of a dead ex-con, shot after a car chase in rural Texas, was the lead on all three newscasts and the Story of the Day. He was identified as Evan Ebel, said to be a member of the 2-11 white supremacist prison gang. What, otherwise, would have been only a local story attracted national attention from the network nightly newscasts because Ebel may have been an assassin: possibly a suspect in the execution of Tom Clements, the Supervisor of the Colorado state prison system. ABC, with substitute anchor David Muir, led with the murder mystery, as it had on Wednesday. CBS, with substitute anchor Bob Schieffer, led with it, as it had on Thursday. For NBC, this was the first time that the Clements assassination had been in its lead.
On Thursday, CBS' Mark Strassmann had drawn a possible connection between the Clements killing and the January assassination of a prosecutor in Kaufman County, Texas, that CBS' Anna Werner had covered at the time. Now Pierre Thomas, in ABC's Washington bureau, raises the same possible connection. So far, NBC's Kristen Dahlgren has confined herself to the Colorado angle and CBS, with Werner, did not revisit the possible Texan link.
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