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Phil Crow Oral History

Phil Crow Oral History

Object number2008.001.0077
Date10/14/2008
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Phil Crow
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 80 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Phil Crow. A fifty-year veteran of the Dallas/Forth Worth television market, Crow was the studio supervisor at independent station KTVT-TV in 1963. He operated a pool camera during President Kennedy's speech at the Fort Worth Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Hotel Texas on November 22, 1963. Following the Kennedy assassination, Crow covered the scene at Parkland Memorial Hospital. On November 24, he was preparing to record a Fort Worth memorial service when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in Dallas. The following day, Crow was a camera operator during the funeral services for Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 14, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Dallas/Fort Worth independent station KTVT-TV supervised pool coverage of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Hotel Texas on November 22, 1963. Their live feed, captured by two cameras inside the Hotel Texas ballroom (including one operated by the late Phil Crow) and one additional camera outside the hotel, was made available to other local stations to carry. This coverage is part of the significant news media collections at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. In addition to KTVT-TV studio supervisor Phil Crow, the Museum also recorded an oral history with KTVT-TV production manager Clayton Turner, who directed the station's pool coverage of the Fort Worth breakfast. - Stephen Fagin, Curator 
Robert Phil Crow passed away on January 31, 2022 at the age of 84. His half-century career in DFW television began as a cameraman at independent station KTVT-TV/Channel 11. He rose to the position of production manager at KTVT and produced the annual "Miss Texas" pageants for a number of years as well as numerous Texas Rangers baseball games. After retiring from the station, Crow supervised camera coverage of Texas Rangers and Dallas Mavericks games for another fifteen years. - Stephen Fagin, Curator