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The assailants, who accosted Mr. According to the report Rather was dressed casually at the time , had his wallet on him but strangely was not robbed. Upon seeing the two men run towards them the assailants ran away. Initially a spokesperson for his home network CBS put out a statement saying. Rather, who was 54 years old at the time was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital and suffered mostly minor injuries including bruising on his back and a swollen jaw.

A man named William Tager who was already serving prison time starting in for the shooting death of an NBC technician is one of the men who attacked Rather. So was it just a random, unprovoked attack?

A case of mistaken identity? Were the attackers some kind of secret agents delivering a message to Rather to back off a particular news story at the time, he was researching the Iran Contra affair and was set to expose new information?

Rather himself had no answers. I didn't and I don't now. I didn't make a lot of it at the time and don't now. I wish I knew who did it and why, but I have no idea. The incident was strange, but it got even stranger. Tager had tried to enter the the studio with an assault rifle, and Montgomery died in an attempt to block him.

Tager was arrested and reportedly told police that the television network had been monitoring him for years and beaming secret messages into his head. He apparently came to NBC looking for a way to block those transmissions. His story took a sci-fi twist when he told a psychiatrist that he was a time traveler from a parallel world in the year A convicted felon in the future, Tager said he was a test-pilot volunteer in a dangerous time travel experiment.

If he was successful on his mission, his sentence would be overturned and he would be set free. Miller, who died in , found the Rather story charming in its bizarreness, according to Easter. That was the idea. Related: R. Coincidentally, Easter also worked with R. Dan Rather, for his part, took everything in stride. In , he performed the song with R. As for Tager? He was sent to Sing Sing in on charges of manslaughter, among other offenses, and was released in , according to the New York Department of Corrections.