Suzanne Adams Oral History

In 2007, the Museum acquired Ms. Adams' home movie from Parkland, which runs approximately thirty seconds. Unfortunately, after having the 8mm film transferred to VHS tape in the 1980s, the original film was either lost or discarded. Thus, her footage is noticeably not as clear as other home movies that have been more recently digitized directly from 8mm film. Her film remains, however, the only home movie in our Collection that was shot at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963.

As seen in the Museum's WFAA-TV Collection, broadcaster Ed Hogan briefly interviewed Suzanne Adams for ABC Television. Adams, who expressed her shock at the recent assassination, is seen outside the emergency entrance with her children, holding her camera. In a 2002 oral history, the late Ed Hogan lamented that he had to mingle with the crowd and ask random people how they felt about the tragic news, calling it "awfully hard." He also noted, "It went on ABC, the full ABC Television Network, for which I was paid the magnanimous sum of $100. It went to every ABC station in the United States, which they had at that time 162 stations." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator