Walter Evans Oral History

Object number1994.007.0024

Date10/12/1994

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Walter Evans

Oral history interviewer Wes Wise

Oral history interviewer Bob Porter

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 46 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Walter Evans. The news editor at WFAA Radio in 1963, Evans was at the Dallas Trade Mart, Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963. Coincidentally, as a young man, he worked three summers for the Texas School Book Depository Company. Interview recorded at Mr. Evans' home on October 12, 1994 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is forty-six minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Nineteen years after this 1994 oral history, Walter Evans recorded a second interview with the Museum in 2013. He passed away on July 24, 2018. - Stephen Fagin, Curator