The Radio Stuff podcast commemorates the 50th anniversary of
JFK's assassination by looking how radio reacted to the events on that historic
weekend in 1963.‘
Did you know?
- A radio station PD came face to face with Lee Harvey Oswald moments after the shooting and asked him where to find a phone.
- Jack Ruby was a radio groupie and answering phones in the KLIF newsroom just hours after the assassination.
- The news of JFK’s assassination was delivered on WGBH radio
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All of those stories are told in episode 27 of the Radio
Stuff podcast.
The first segment of the Radio Stuff podcast is highlighted
by hosts Deb Slater & Larry Gifford interviewing Gary DeLaune, a reporter
and anchor at KLIF in Dallas
on November 22, 1963 and the first person to broadcast news of shots fired at
the Presidential motorcade. He was also one of the men standing near Lee Harvey
Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby.
“I was stunned I guess. I was just getting over reporting
about President Kennedy and then – no one knew who it was at the time – this
figure just came out of my periphery vision.”
His account of that weekend is as if it happened yesterday.
It's chilling. And was life altering.
“Covering that story and reporting it from start to finish,
it provided me the self-confidence as a news professional that I would have
never have had if it hadn’t been for that event.”
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