/internal/media/dispatcher/72581/full"When the News Went Live" Program11/01/2007[Robert Huffaker, Bill Mercer, George Phenix, Wes Wise]Robert HuffakerBorn digital (.m2ts file)Videotaped oral history program titled "When the News Went Live". Participants include former KRLD-TV and Radio employees Bob Huffaker, Bill Mercer, George Phenix, and Wes Wise. This panel discussion focused on their memories of the Kennedy assassination weekend and promoted their book, "When the News Went Live" (2004). The authors signed books in the lobby of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza after the program. A KRLD police reporter in 1963, Bob Huffaker broadcast the motorcade at Main & Akard streets in downtown Dallas and later covered events at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He then reported live from Dallas police headquarters on KRLD and CBS and was standing a few feet from Jack Ruby when Ruby shot Oswald. In 1964, Huffaker covered the Jack Ruby trial. Bill Mercer was a news and sportscaster at KRLD-TV and Radio in 1963. At the midnight press conference for Lee Harvey Oswald, he informed Oswald that he had been charged with the murder of President Kennedy. A news photographer for KRLD-TV, George Phenix was at Dallas Love Field and Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963. On Sunday, November 24th, he filmed the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mayor of Dallas from 1971 to 1976, in 1963 Wes Wise was a reporter for KRLD-TV in Dallas and president of the Dallas Press Club. He spoke with Jack Ruby in Dealey Plaza the day after the assassination. Previously, in October 1963, Wise captured on film the infamous attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Dallas. From 1992 to 1997, Wise served as a consultant and primary interviewer for the Museum's Oral History Project.Oral Historieshttps://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26384/rdf