/internal/media/dispatcher/73889/fullSuzanne Adams Oral History04/03/2009Duration: 29 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2009.001.00240Videotaped oral history interview with Suzanne Adams. On November 22, 1963, Adams had planned to take her two children to Dallas Love Field to see the Kennedys depart Dallas. However, after the assassination, she decided to go to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she filmed a short home movie and was interviewed on ABC Television.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 3, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifteen minutes long.Oral Histories645360E-100E-1029837Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Suzanne Adams. On November 22, 1963, Adams had planned to take her two children to Dallas Love Field to see the Kennedys depart Dallas. However, after the assassination, she decided to go to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she filmed a short home movie and was interviewed on ABC Television.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 3, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifteen minutes long.Oral historiesAdams, SuzanneHogan, EdParkland HospitalABCWFAA-TVDallasParkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)News Media (OHC)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