NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Walter Rogers, an eight-term Texas Democrat who was in President Kennedy's motorcade when the president was assassinated in Dallas, died May 31 at a hospital in Naples. He was 92.
Rogers represented Texas' 18th Congressional District for eight terms, 1951-1966. He investigated the television quiz show scandals of the 1950s. In 1954, he dragged a colleague to safety when Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House floor.
Rogers was born July 19, 1908, in Texarkana, Ark. He graduated from the University of Texas Law School and practiced law before his election.
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Rogers is survived by his wife, six children, a brother, 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.