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Suzanne Adams Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Suzanne Adams. On November 22, 1963, Adams had planned to take her two children to Dallas Love Field to see the Kennedys depart Dallas. However, after the assassination, she decided to go to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she filmed a short home movie and was interviewed on ABC Television. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 3, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifteen minutes long.
Suzanne Adams Oral History
04/03/2009
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 29 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2009.001.0024
In 2007, the Museum acquired Ms. Adams' home movie from Parkland, which runs approximately thirty seconds. Unfortunately, after having the 8mm film transferred to VHS tape in the 1980s, the original film was either lost or discarded. Thus, her footage is noticeably not as clear as other home movies that have been more recently digitized directly from 8mm film. Her film remains, however, the only home movie in our Collection that was shot at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963. As seen in the Museum's WFAA-TV Collection, broadcaster Ed Hogan briefly interviewed Suzanne Adams for ABC Television. Adams, who expressed her shock at the recent assassination, is seen outside the emergency entrance with her children, holding her camera. In a 2002 oral history, the late Ed Hogan lamented that he had to mingle with the crowd and ask random people how they felt about the tragic news, calling it "awfully hard." He also noted, "It went on ABC, the full ABC Television Network, for which I was paid the magnanimous sum of $100. It went to every ABC station in the United States, which they had at that time 162 stations." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Suzanne Adams Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Suzanne Adams. On November 22, 1963, Adams had planned to take her two children to Dallas Love Field to see the Kennedys depart Dallas. However, after the assassination, she decided to go to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she filmed a short home movie and was interviewed on ABC Television. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 3, 2009 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifteen minutes long.
Suzanne Adams Oral History
04/03/2009
Oral histories
Adams, Suzanne
Hogan, Ed
Parkland Hospital
ABC
WFAA-TV
Dallas
Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 29 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2009.001.0024
In 2007, the Museum acquired Ms. Adams' home movie from Parkland, which runs approximately thirty seconds. Unfortunately, after having the 8mm film transferred to VHS tape in the 1980s, the original film was either lost or discarded. Thus, her footage is noticeably not as clear as other home movies that have been more recently digitized directly from 8mm film. Her film remains, however, the only home movie in our Collection that was shot at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963. As seen in the Museum's WFAA-TV Collection, broadcaster Ed Hogan briefly interviewed Suzanne Adams for ABC Television. Adams, who expressed her shock at the recent assassination, is seen outside the emergency entrance with her children, holding her camera. In a 2002 oral history, the late Ed Hogan lamented that he had to mingle with the crowd and ask random people how they felt about the tragic news, calling it "awfully hard." He also noted, "It went on ABC, the full ABC Television Network, for which I was paid the magnanimous sum of $100. It went to every ABC station in the United States, which they had at that time 162 stations." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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