"When the News Went Live" Program
- Reporter
- Broadcast journalism
- Protests
- Cameras
- Cameraman
- Radio
- Television
- Oral histories
- Oswald, Lee Harvey
- Ruby, Jack
- Stevenson, Adlai
- Walker, Major General Edwin A.
- Rather, Dan
- Barker, Eddie
- Huffaker, Bob
- Mercer, Bill
- Phenix, George
- Wise, Wes
- KRLD-TV
- Parkland Hospital
- Dallas Police Department
- KRLD-Radio
- CBS News
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Motorcade Spectators (OHC)
- Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
- Jack Ruby (OHC)
- Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
- News Media (OHC)
- Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
- Jack Ruby (OHC)
- Law Enforcement (OHC)
- Community Leaders (OHC)
In addition to this 2008 program, the authors of When the News Went Live (2004) each recorded one or more one-on-one oral history interviews with The Sixth Floor Museum and participated in multiple public programs. As of spring 2024, Bill Mercer is the only co-author still living.
Bob Huffaker's three-hour 1994 oral history may be accessed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/4792. He also participated in a 2012 panel discussion about the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald that is on the Museum's YouTube channel: Oswald Has Been Shot! (youtube.com). He passed away on June 25, 2018.
Bill Mercer's 2005 oral history may be accessed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26104. His 2019 Living History public program is on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Bill Mercer (youtube.com). Most recently, a special visit by Bill to the Museum in 2023 to examine a new artifact is also on YouTube: Rediscovering History: KRLD-TV Camera 3 with Bill Mercer (youtube.com).
George Phenix's 2012 oral history may be accessed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/36526. He passed away on September 24, 2021.
Wes Wise, who consulted on the Museum's Oral History Project in its earliest years, recorded interviews in 1993 (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/4681) and 2005 (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26135). A 2015 public program featuring Wise is on the Museum's YouTube channel: Legacies 2015: A Conversation with Wes Wise (youtube.com).
Two other Museum panel discussions with the authors of When the News Went Live may be found online. A 2007 conversation may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26384. Their final panel discussion, recorded in October 2013, is on the Museum's YouTube channel: When The News Went Live: Author Panel Discussion (2013) - YouTube.
Their book may be found here in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for When the news went live. - Stephen Fagin, May 10, 2024.