Tracy Rowlett Oral History
Object number2017.001.0048
Date05/16/2017
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Tracy Rowlett
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 49 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Tracy Rowlett. Rowlett was an award-winning Dallas/Fort Worth broadcast journalist for more than twenty-five years, working at ABC affiliate WFAA-TV (1974-99) and CBS affiliate KTVT-TV (2000-02). As a broadcaster for Armed Forces Radio and Television in Tripoli, Libya, in 1963, Rowlett broke news of the assassination in that part of the Middle East and continued reporting through President Kennedy’s funeral three days later.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 16, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryWatching the local evening news in the late 1980s, my family always had our television turned to the award-winning "Spirit of Texas" news team on ABC affiliate WFAA-TV/Channel 8, which D Magazine in 1989 called "a local television news operation that is, by any measure, among the two or three best in America." The evening line-up that I best remember consisted of news anchors Tracy Rowlett and John Criswell with meteorologist Troy Dungan and sportscaster Dale Hansen. It was a great honor for me to sit down with three of these four gentlemen for one-on-one interviews in 2017. The late John Criswell's oral history may be accessed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/48012. Troy Dungan's interview may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/48029. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Six months after this oral history was recorded, Tracy Rowlett returned to the Museum for an educational Living History program. It may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Tracy Rowlett (youtube.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator
11/22/1963 - 11/24/1963
