Oral History Interview with Elston Brooks, March 21, 1984 Page: 1
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Oral History Collection
Elston Brooks
Interviewer: Alice Anita Bowen.
Place of Interview: Fort Worth, Texas Date of Interview: March 21,1984
Bowen: This is Alice Anita Bowen for the North Texas State Univer-
sity Oral History Collection. The interview is taking place
on March 21, 1984, in Fort Worth, Texas. I am interviewing
Elston Brooks to obtain his recollections concerning the
Kennedy assassination 'on November 22, 1963.
All right, Elston, let's start out by getting some
background information about you--your hometown, have you
lived in Fort Worth, things like that.
Brooks: Well, I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but I fully
consider myself a Fort Vorth native because we moved here
when my father was transferred here when I was six years
old. When I was eight years old, I started putting out
a little neighborhood newspaper--one sheet. I would have
to take it from door 'to door and wait there until they
read it until .I could take it to the next subscriber.
Bowen: One-copy edition.Brooks: One-copy edition, that's right--on a portable typewriter.
So I decided that right then and there I wanted to be a
newspaperman.
Bowen: Why did you get interested in it? Was anybody in your
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Bowen, Alice Anita & Brooks, Elston. Oral History Interview with Elston Brooks, March 21, 1984, book, March 21, 1984; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137845/m1/3/?q=%221984~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.