/internal/media/dispatcher/74129/fullGeorge Phenix Oral History02/03/2012Duration: 54 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2012.001.00070Videotaped oral history interview with George Phenix. A news photographer for KRLD-TV, Phenix was at Dallas Love Field and Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963. On Sunday, he filmed the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Interview conducted at [location] on February 3, 2012 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories648660E-100E-1036526Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with George Phenix. A news photographer for Dallas CBS affiliate KRLD-TV, Phenix was at Dallas Love Field and Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day of the Kennedy assassination. On Sunday, November 24, 1963, he captured the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald on 16mm film. After leaving KRLD, Phenix became a political writer and co-founded the Texas Weekly newsletter.
Interview conducted at Mr. Phenix's home in Austin on February 3, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.Oral historiesPhotographerPressOswald, Lee HarveyPhenix, GeorgeKRLD-TVParkland HospitalLove FieldDallasLove Field Airport (OHC)Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)News Media (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)George Phenix passed away on September 24, 2021. In 2004, Phenix co-authored When the News Went Live with three of his former KRLD-TV colleagues: Bob Huffaker, Bill Mercer and Wes Wise. The four men visited the Museum on several occasions for panel discussions and book signings, including programs in 2007 (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26384), 2008 (When The News Went Live: Author Panel Discussion (2008) - YouTube) and 2013 (When The News Went Live: Author Panel Discussion (2013) - YouTube). - Stephen Fagin, Curator