Eddie Barker's Notebook: Stories That Made the News (and Some Better Ones That Didn't!)

by Eddie Barker and John Mark Dempsey

November 22nd, 1963. The John F. Kennedy's assassination. As news director and anchor of KRLD-TV, Channel 4, then the CBS affiliate in Dallas, Eddie Barker stationed himself at the Trade Mart where... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971766762
• ISBN13: 9780971766761
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: John M. Hardy
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Newsroom Lore to the n-th Degree

I found that I wasn't as interested in the author's connection with leaning about and reporting the Kennedy murder as I was reading about the adventures he experienced as he felt his way into figuring out how to operate what was then an entirely new medium - the television newsroom. That in itself is more than worth the time to read Eddie Barker's Notebook. And every single person who has accepted broadcasting as his life's work should study and accept as his own, Eddie's formula for integrity in news reporting. He advances it plain and bluntly here, so there can be no reason for the reader to say he doesn't understand it. I don't know Eddie personally, but like millions of others did, I knew his TV work back then. It's nice to read his accounting of those times and his career.