Bobbie Wygant Oral History

Object number2015.001.0128

Date08/31/2015

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Bobbie Wygant

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 73 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Bobbie Wygant. An entertainment reporter and critic at Dallas NBC affiliate WBAP-TV (KXAS-TV) for more than seventy years, Wygant started her career there two weeks before the station went on the air in 1948. News of the Kennedy assassination interrupted her live talk show, Dateline, multiple times on November 22, 1963, which was also her thirty-seventh birthday. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 31, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirteen minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Four years after this interview, Bobbie Wygant returned to The Sixth Floor Museum for a wonderful public program on April 22, 2019. The program may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: 70 Years of Texas Television: An Evening with Bobbie Wygant - YouTube. Also on YouTube is the Bobbie Wygant Archive. Launched in 2020, the archive featured hundreds of segments from her celebrity interviews over the years, including multiple conversations with filmmaker Oliver Stone as well as 1991 interviews with JFK actors Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. The Bobby Wygant Archive may be accessed here: The Bobbie Wygant Archive - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator