John Sparks Oral History

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A veteran Dallas/Fort Worth broadcast producer and journalist for more than four decades, Sparks saved the original WFAA-TV/Channel 8 films and videotapes of Kennedy assassination news coverage from being destroyed in the early 1980s. On November 22, 1963, as a trumpet player in the Eastern Hills High School band, Sparks performed at the presidential breakfast at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 6, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-three minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

John Sparks Oral History

Date:

10/06/2006

Terms:

Fort Worth

Fort Worth breakfast

Trip to Texas

Oral histories

Sparks, John

Hotel Texas

WFAA-TV

Dallas

News Media (OHC)

Fort Worth (OHC)

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 53 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2006.001.0050

Curatorial Note:

A longtime friend of The Sixth Floor Museum, John Sparks recorded a second oral history on January 13, 2016. He has also taken part in several Living History educational programs for student groups, including this conversation in 2016: Living History with John Sparks - YouTube. In 2014, Sparks moderated a panel discussion with 1963 Dallas Times Herald photographers in 2015, which may be viewed here: Dallas Times Herald 1963 - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator