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Subtitle: behind the headlines of Texas television history
By: Bert Shipp
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781609494155
Subjects: Television journalists; Television broadcasting of news; Biography; History
Description: As broadcast news came of age in the turbulent decades of the 1950s and '60s, North Texas reporter Bert Shipp was on the front lines. While television changed the way Texas and the world witnessed history, Shipp's Dallas/Fort Worth coverage reported stories of both national and local importance. Whether in the media race to cover the Kennedy assassination, on a mission to Laos to help recover a secret list of prisoners of war while on a mission in Laos or highlighting the boy who had no shoes for Christmas, Shipp's accounts of chronicling the news are fascinating and often hilarious. Join this award-winning journalist as he recalls harrowing, humorous and true behind-the-scenes stories of those early days in Texas television news.
Table of contents: title: The toad-tough lady; title: Free press, free lunch?; title: The press and the by-God FBI; title: A very scary situation; title: Staging the news?; title: A sad tale from East Texas; title: The crusading reporter; title: The state fair itch; title: Can't we all just get along?; title: The darling of the police department; title: TV news as a contact sport; title: Tim's shoes; title: The watering hole; title: The hangar demolition and then Ellie; title: Movin' on; title: Minding the store; title: Best interview: the Beatles; title: Chasing missiles; title: The day Kennedy died; title: The ladies of the White Rose.