Living History with John Sparks
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2017
- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented an interview with John Sparks as a Living History education program, connected online via Distance Learning to students at Algonquin College in Ontario, Canada. 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. The program was moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin.
This presentation took place at the Museum on November 3, 2016. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org). Or make a research appointment to explore the books, DVDs and other materials available in the Museum's Reading Room (www.jfk.org/reading-room).
Stephen Fagin always does a great job with these interviews.
He really does - he asks great questions, and knows how and when to keep quiet and just let his guests talk!
Thank God this man saved all this film footage for history!
Thank goodness those tapes were saved, thank you very much Mr Sparks.
This man is my hero for saving these tapes! The history he saved is incredible.
Mine, too!!
Thank Goodness for Mr Sparks saving those video tapes, thank you from Australia Sir!
Always interesting and informative !
Good video! Keep it up!
I prefer the stories like that of John Sparks who played with his high school band at the Fort Worth breakfast of JFK and his revelations of how he saved a lot of the historical video from being discarded
John Sparks was a great co-worker at KTVT.
You were asking people, but the route formation was never questioned to my knowledge (into the triangle near the building).
While Wesley Buell Frazier does sound a little funny in some of his interviews, this guy calling him strange is a bit uncalled for.
He is strange
John Sparks is clearly a highly educated man with a disguised career in journalism with an outstanding verbal skills. Wesley Buell Frazier clearly isn't as polished, comes across a real blue collar type, but that doesn't make him, strange, or untrustworthy...he has unselfishly told his story. He has repeatedly said it was about 24 inches 26 at the most. As did his sister who saw Oswald approach the car with the package.
WHY was the government covering up the entry wound? IF it was plan and simple as he said.
Watch the tape when Mrs. Kennedy walks up to the head table. Otice the lady close to the end that is not clapping, nor looking at Jackie. Then shoots daggers at the man next to her, probably her hubby. Im thinking he was a doctor. The ladies at that table didnt seem to be excited to see Jacqueline Kennedy outshine them by a thousand miles.
Just think that all those drivers in downtown Dallas are all thinking the same thing, Am I having chicken fried steak for dinner again and why do the Cowboys suck so bad.
"Fort Worth-less" Jim Wright a good guy?? 😂 He left the Speakership in disgrace.
However, it is good he preserved the video footage. I am appalled that for cataclysms like this event that anyone wants to delete this stuff. They used to do it to re-use expensive videotape and save money, but by the 80's I just don't see how they are going to re-use black and white.
The Wright Amendment limited direct flights from Love Field / SW Airlines to states that bordered Texas. It helped make DFW one of the most expensive areas to fly from.
The F-111 was kind of a sucky plane. A jack of all trades, master of none. The pilots that flew them felt that they were cool in the ground-following radar flight control, but on the other hand, they couldn't do much in terms of what they wanted in a fighter, and it wasn't very good in an air-to-ground attack plane, and as a dogfighter, it was horrible. McNamara wanted a plane that was able to be used by the Air Force and the Navy, and instead the plane couldn't do anything well....
Yay Moominland!
I did not care for this John Sparks Yahoo. Why was He putting Buell Wesley Frazier down? Frazier does not have to do these interviews. Frazier donates His time to do these interviews free of charge. I've heard there are those that charge to do interviews.
1963 inbred class separation rampant in the then middle class. Know your station in life and stay there. And keep others, of lower status, in there place when needed. This guy's a true "middle class" act.
@Christian Vongoller: Perhaps it's because Frazier, over the years, gave a number of conflicting accounts of the size of the package Oswald carried in to the TSBD the morning of the assassination. First, he testified that it was 24" long, then, maybe a little longer than that. But in interviews, he said it looked too small to conceal a rifle. Finally, his later version is that he never really got a good close look at the package! Some folks just don't appreciate that sort of inconsistency, especially concerning such a critical detail in the case.
"But in interviews, he said it looked too small to conceal a rifle." He never said it was long enough for it to be a rifle. He has repeatedly said it was about 24 inches 26 at the most. As did his sister who saw Oswald approach the car with the package. @@apointofinterest8574
Your in charge of spreading the lie its a noble profession nothing happen on the 6th floor
You got that right! This guy likes to put people down.
@@janetphillips2875 Put people down? You mean like Oswald put JFK down?
(Around the beginning) Out of all the presidents wtf Obama has to do with anything is beyond me! Usually Stephen cut them off in a nice way when they start to ramble off into the Twilight Zone. This is one of those guys he should've cut off periodically. I didn't finish this one because I got bad vibes from that dude. Something not right with him..
This guy's a strange opportunist in my opinion. I add that caution because maybe it's a good thing to appear like you get a thrill out of charging money for people to hear their own miserable witness to see & hear from the witness to the murder of a popular POTUS.
HE seems to get off at each of these self- promotions & the positive things he's planning for the next term.
I don't think Dallas was much more than a bunch of loudmouths that knee what was best for everyone else.but there at the end the road, so to speak.
If not for this guy, we'd be w/out this pile of money making opportunity🤠 right here at the scene of the crime.
This place strikes me as whorish & too greedy to know that isn't a good thing: rubbing sweaty palms together and counting cash- with pride.
The fully integrated circuit, the handheld calculator, and the ATM were invented in the North Dallas suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s. He does not represent the people of Dallas back then. They were talented engineers.