Troy Dungan Oral History
Object number2017.001.0020
Date02/15/2017
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Troy Dungan
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 28 Minutes
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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Troy Dungan. The award-winning chief weather anchor for WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth for more than three decades, Dungan was a weatherman and booth announcer at the CBS affiliate in Orlando, Florida at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 15, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-eight minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryWatching the local evening news in the late 1980s, my family always had our television turned to the award-winning "Spirit of Texas" news team on ABC affiliate WFAA-TV/Channel 8, which D Magazine in 1989 called "a local television news operation that is, by any measure, among the two or three best in America." The evening line-up that I best remember consisted of news anchors Tracy Rowlett and John Criswell with meteorologist Troy Dungan and sportscaster Dale Hansen. It was a great honor for me to sit down with three of these four gentlemen for one-on-one interviews in 2017. In addition, Tracy Rowlett returned to the Museum later that same year for a Living History educational program, which may be viewed in full here on YouTube: Living History with Tracy Rowlett - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
