DMA 5: DALLAS
WFAA’s Brett Shipp Resigns To Run For Congress
AIR CHECK BY DIANA MARSZALEK
WFAA’s Bert Shipp Remembers Nov. 22, 1963
Fifty years ago, Bert Shipp was assistant news director at Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA. He assigned himself to cover President John F. Kennedy’s scheduled luncheon speech. Instead he found himself at the center of the biggest story of his career and one that filled the air of his and the other stations in town with four days of nonstop coverage. He talks about what that day meant to him and to the still-young medium of television news.
