Walter Evans Oral History

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Videotaped 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.

Object Details

Object title:

Walter Evans Oral History

Date:

12/11/2013

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)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2013.001.0152

Curatorial Note:

Nineteen 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