Walter Evans Oral History
Object number2013.001.0152
Date12/11/2013
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Walter Evans
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 59 Minutes
Terms
- Reporter
- Oral histories
- Press
- Broadcast journalism
- Radio
- Allman, Pierce
- WFAA
- Dallas Trade Mart
- Love Field
- Parkland Hospital
- Texas School Book Depository
- Dallas
- Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)
- Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
- Love Field Airport (OHC)
- News Media (OHC)
- History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Walter Evans. The news editor at WFAA Radio in 1963, Evans was at the Dallas Trade Mart, Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Dallas Love Field on the day of the assassination. Ironically, as a young man, he worked three summers for the Texas School Book Depository Company.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 11, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryNineteen years prior to this 2013 oral history, Walter Evans recorded an oral history with the Museum on October 12, 1994. That interview may be accessed here: Walter Evans Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org).
Walter Evans passed away on July 24, 2018 at the age of 86. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
