{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"23574"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"WFAA-TV Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Black and white photograph showing policemen and studio personnel at WFAA-TV  during a live interview with assassination eyewitness Abraham Zapruder (off camera, to the right).\r\n\r\nThis photograph was taken by an unknown promotions department employee two hours after the assassination.  Police officers, C.R. Osburn (L) and Joe B. Jones (R), stand next to Erwin Schwartz, Abraham Zapruder's business partner.  Schwartz holds a camera case over his right shoulder containing the camera and undeveloped film that Zapruder shot in Dealey Plaza during the assassination.  The two policemen, at the request of police headquarters,  drove Zapruder, Schwartz and Forrest Sorrels, head of the Dallas Secret Service office, to The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV hoping to have Zapruder's film processed. \r\n\r\nThe two men wearing headsets are camera operators; the names of the five other men are unknown. In the background are a studio light, weather map and parts of backdrops for news programs."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"1998.010.0189"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"This original black and white photograph is by an unidentified station photographer taken the afternoon of the assassination and shows various WFAA-TV personnel, two police officers and Erwin Schwartz standing in the news studio during Abraham Zapruder's live interview.  In this image 8 individuals can be seen.  Erwin Schwartz (wearing a dark suit and tie), is seen third from the left (next to the 2 policemen) carrying the case storing Zapruder's camera.  The two policemen are there to guard the camera and film.  The other men are personnel working behind-the-scenes during the interview.  In the background are news props, weather maps, and equipment.\r\n\r\nCuratorial Commentary 5/16/2011 (1998.010.0102): \u201cSince all news photographers were out of the building covering breaking news stories, an unknown member of the station\u2019s promotions department took several behind-the-scenes pictures, including this one, of newsworthy events happening at WFAA.\u201d  Gary Mack, Curator\r\n\r\nA large, yellowing stain from adhesive is on the back of the paper towards the bottom edge."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paper"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27791/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27791"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Black and white photograph of WFAA-TV news studio the day of the assassination"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Photographs"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/27791/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Cameras","Films","Television","Photographs","Interviews","Zapruder film","Camera case","Reporter","Press","Assassination","Schwartz, Erwin","Zapruder, Abraham","ABC","WFAA-TV","Dallas"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Photograph (b&w)"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"11/22/1963"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["25.4000000000"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["While the interview was being conducted, assistant news director and chief photographer Bert Shipp called the Eastman Kodak lab in Dallas to arrange for processing.  As soon as the 2:30 p.m. interview concluded, the officers drove Zapruder, Schwartz and Sorrels to Kodak, which was located near the south end of Love Field.  They arrived moments after Air Force One took off for Washington. - Gary Mack, Curator","At the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, the WFAA Communications Center Studios was located at the corner of Young and Record Streets in downtown Dallas, approximately two blocks north of Dealey Plaza. As a result of their proximity, WFAA-TV/Channel 8 was the first local television station to break into programming with news of the shooting on November 22, 1963. Program director Jay Watson, himself an eyewitness to the assassination, interrupted the Julie Bennell Show, a local lifestyle and fashion program, approximately fifteen minutes after shots were fired in Dealey Plaza. In another first, Watson was the first to interview assassination eyewitnesses on the air after collecting the stunned Newman family in the plaza and rushing them to WFAA studios. The coverage that followed represents one of the most substantial archives of Kennedy assassination broadcast news footage in existence.   \r\n\r\nAmazingly, this historic news footage was nearly lost forever in the early 1980s. During that era, it was common for television stations to dispose of or recycle outdated broadcast tapes in order to save space and reduce costs. Prior to the age of widespread digital archiving, expensive videotapes were frequently erased and reused. Nearly twenty years after the assassination, a young WFAA-TV employee named John Sparks noticed all of the station's Kennedy tapes were boxed up and marked for disposal. Sparks, who had been part of the high school band that performed for President and Mrs. Kennedy in Fort Worth that fateful date, instantly recognized the historic significance of the material, and he singlehandedly rescued the tapes from destruction. The full WFAA-TV archive of Kennedy assassination news coverage was later donated to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 1998. Hear the inside story about how John Sparks saved this historic broadcast news footage in this 2025 Living History conversation: Living History from Fort Worth, November 22, 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65885"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["20.3200000000"]}}]}