One of El Paso's TV news stations leads the way in coverage about environmental, outdoors recreation and heritage stories. KVIA-TV News seemingly produces more stories about these events than any other news media. This may be largely due to the fact that General Manager Kevin Lovell is an avid hiker who cares about our environment. After he read my post yesterday, he emailed me the following:
"KVIA devoted extraordinary resources to the crash site anniversary. Reporter Matt Dougherty traveled to the site on the day before the anniversary. He discovered a woman who visits the site every year, bringing flowers from Juarez even though she has no personal connection to the plane crash. Later in the week we covered the dedication."
On December 12th, KVIA-TV did this story. Then again on December 15th they ran this story about the commemoration event. It is very touching. I hope both stories can be uploaded to a history site of some sort - perhaps along with other KVIA stories on YouTube.
Of course, when it comes to the history and lore of El Paso, no one tells it better than Documentary Filmmaker, Jackson Polk. You can watch the entire
B-36 Crash Site Historic Marker Dedication by going to EPHistory.com. There is a link to the video. Later, when appropriate, I may put an embedded copy on elpasonaturally as well.
Be sure to listen to El Paso History Radio Show with Jackson and Melissa Sargent on KTSM-690 AM on Saturday mornings from 10 to Noon. Polk has begun archiving previous broadcasts. You can see a list with links HERE.
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Thanks, Jim. There is a Heritage Summit coming. Mark your calendar for March 22, 2014 at the El Paso Convention Center. We are all in this together. It is just that some of us don't know others are just as interested in our heritage and what they are doing. We are making a real effort to archive El Paso history lectures and events online so anyone can view these programs. Our El Paso History Journal webpage lists several dozen short reports and long lectures, some close to 2 hours, that all can see. More as we go...
ReplyDeleteJim, we all need to work together, and that kind of forum has been missing on a county-wide basis. So, we needed that March 2013 History Summit and a lot of people connected and began to do things together. Out of that, we are about to have our second Summit, the El Paso Heritage Tourism Summit on March 22, 2014 at the El Paso Convention Center. Save the date!
ReplyDeleteKevin Lovell emailed me and praised his reporter:
ReplyDelete"Matt Dougherty deserves all the credit for pitching the story, climbing the mountain with Cesar --and almost sacrificing his right arm in the process-- plus getting his 80+ year old uncle on Skype, then spending 8 hours to edit the story on his own (yay!!), then going to the ceremony during his own time Saturday morning to interview the widows... and putting another follow up package together."