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Farris Rookstool, III

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Never-before-seen footage of JFK’s motorcade racing president to hospital after assassination goes to auction

Farris Rookstool III, a historian, documentary filmmaker and former FBI analyst who has reviewed the film, said it shows the rush to Parkland Hospital in a more complete way than other, more fragmented film footage he’s seen. The newly publicized footage was shot by Dale Carpenter Sr. 


Update: Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auction. US News: AP, Updated on September 28, 2024 

Archives: JFK stories from WFAA through the years

Rookstool shares historical insights in some of the most compelling and revealing WFAA stories related to JFK and the president's assassination in Dallas in 1963. 


"The conspiracy minded people will never be satisfied," said former FBI analyst Farris Rookstool.


Archives: JFK Stories from WFAA, Jason Whitely, November 21, 2023

WACO and the Shocking Truth about What Really Happened

ATF agent Blake Boteler and former FBI agent Farris Rookstool, III share their experiences of the disastrous siege in Waco, Texas of 1993 and the decisions that led to a deadly confrontation. 


Waco, by bestselling author of Maonson and the Road to Jonestown, Jeff Guinn, Simon & Schuster, January 24, 2003 

National and World News

2024


  • Newly emerged JFK assassination video shows motorcade rushing president to hospital after he was shot, U.S. News: CBS/AP, Updated on September 5, 2024


2018 - 2023


  • National Archives closes review of JFK assassination records, conspiracies and tourists at Dealey Plaza abound, WFAA, by Jobin Panicker, July 7, 2023
  • Unseen photo of JFK on day of assassination found in thrift shop CD case, NY Post, by Samantha Ibrahim, February 22, 2023
  • Uncovering What Really Happened at the Waco Siege, A&E True Crime by Jacquelyn Gray, January 24, 2023
  • Texas broadcaster who covered JFK assassination dies at 88, AP News, by Jamie Stengel, February 7, 2022
  • Dallas Love Field Hangs Bronze Marker, Moves Toward Completion of JFK and LBJ Exhibit WFAA By Jason Whitely, April 23, 2020 
  • University Mourns Loss of Famed Geoscientist, Community Cornerstone UTD News Center, September 23, 2019
  • Featured Project: Marking a Spot in Presidential History SDG Magazine, by Tony Kindelspire, April 3, 2019


2016 - 2017


  • Oak Cliff's Texas Theater Gets New JFK Historical Marker that Fixes the Record  Dallas Morning News, By Charles Scudder November 22, 2017
  • JFK Assassination: Files Reveal CIA Shied from Moscow Link The Sunday Times, By Toby Harnden, October 29 2017
  • President Trump is Vowing to Release All the. Files on President JFK's Assassination (Transcript) CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera (Transcript), October 28, 2017
  • The Release of JFK Files Was Planned for Decades. Why Delay Now Observer, By Joe Lapointe, October 27, 2017
  • What Could Be in the New JFK Assassination Records? WXXV25, By NBC News, October 25, 2017
  • What Could Be in the New Kennedy Assassination Records? NBC News, By Alex Johnson, October 25, 2017
  • Secret JFK Assassination Docs Released The Horn News, By The Horn Editorial Team, July 25, 2017
  • Dallas Love Field Has Been Ignoring One Of Its Biggest Historical Milestones KERA News, By Molly Evans, October 21, 2016
  • Dallas Love Field Hides it's Presidential History Texas Tribune, By Jason Whitely WFAA-TV, October 19, 2016
  • Farris Rookstool III BA’90 Combed Through History... UT Dallas Magazine, Spring 2016
  • Love Field Marker Will Show Location Where Lyndon B. Johnson Became the 36th President of the United States City of Dallas, 2016


2014 - 2015


  • Lawsuit Seeks Return of Missing JFK Assassination Footage The Washington Post, By Justin Wm. Moyer, November 24, 2015
  • JFK assassination: Woman Sues US Government for Return of 'Lost' Footage Independent, By Andrew Buncombe, November 24, 2015
  • Dallas Love Field Gets Marker Illuminating Where LBJ Was Sworn In LBJ Library, By Jason Whiteley WFAA-TV, October 1, 2015
  • Dallas Love Field Gets Marker Illuminating Where LBJ was Sworn In USA Today, By Jason Whitely WFAA TV, October 1, 2015
  • Plaque Now Marks Spot LBJ Sworn at Dallas Love Field KDFW Fox 4 News, Dallas Fort Worth, September 3, 2015
  • Dallas to Mark Location Where LBJ Became President USA Today, By Jason Whitely WFAA-TV, September 2, 2015
  • Dallas Airport to Mark Spot where LBJ was Sworn in as President Egypt Independent, By Reuters,  September 2, 2015
  • Dallas to Mark the Location on Love Field Where LBJ Took Oath lohud.com, By Jason Whitely, WFAA, Sept. 2, 2015
  • Dallas Airport to Mark Spot where LBJ was Sworn in as President Reuters, Marice Richter, September 1, 2015
  • Punches, Cussing, Threats: Tour Guides' Tasteful Treatment  of JFK's Death Dallas Observer, By Amy Martyn, June 3, 2015
  • Station Wagon Tied to JFK Assassination Up for Auction KVUE ABC, By KVUE Staff, March 27, 2015
  • Oswald Cutout is Unwelcome Visitor at Dallas JFK Memorial KHOU-11 Houston, By KHOU Staff, March 18, 2015
  • Legal Battle Over Lee Harvey Oswald's Crumbling Casket WTSP 10, By Jason Whitely (WTSP) December 10, 2014
  • Judge to Decide Fate of Oswald's Original Casket USA Today, By Jason Whitely  WFAA-TV, December 9, 2014
  • 2014 Lone Star Emmy AwardeesThe National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, October 26, 2014
  • City Posthumously Honors Officer Who Arrested Oswald Arkansas Online, Three Rivers Edition, By Wayne Bryan, October 23, 2014
  • Wanted: The "Other" JFK Film Poughkeepsie Journal, by Gannett News Service, June 15, 2014  
  • Two Momentous Breakfasts Fifty Years Apart Chamber Executive, By Andrea Bennett House, Spring 2014


2012 - 2013


  • Flashback Fridays: The Most Important Single Location at Love Field Southwest Air Community, By R. West, November 22, 2013
  • Lost Audio Tapes Surface From Day Of JFK Assassination Inside Edition, November 21, 2013 
  • Wallet Mystery from Officer Tippit's Murder Settled After 50 Years WFAA, By Jason Whitely, November 20, 2013
  • S.A. Media Vets Recall Chaotic, Emotional Coverage of JFK Tragedy My San Antonio, By Jeanne Jakle, November 17, 2013 
  • Was this Window Used by JFK's Assassin? KENS 5, November 12, 2013
  • Dallas Prepares for Next Year's 50th Anniversary of. the JFK Assassination The Florida Times-Union, By The Associated Press, November 22, 2012


2010 - 2011


  • Shop Manager Who Led Police to Lee Harvey Oswald is Honoured on 48th Anniversary of JFK Assassination Daily Mail, By Graham Smith for MailOnline, ,November 23, 2011
  • Johnny Calvin Brewer, Man Who Helped Catch JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, Honored by Dallas Police New York Daily News, By The Associated Press, November 22, 2011
  • US Honoures Man Who Led Police to President John F. Kennedy's Killer The Telegraph, November 2011
  • Dallas Honors Man, Now 82, for Heroism in Wake of JFK Assassination The Seattle Times, By Scott K. Parks, November 20, 2010


2008 - 2009


  • Funds for John F. Kennedy Statue OKed in Fort Worth The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, By Mitch Mitchell and Mike Lee, September 10, 2009
  • You Need to Know Farris Rookstool III D CEO, By Dave Moore, May-June 2009
  • A Claim To Camelot, The Man Who Could by Jack Vanity Fair, By David Friend, June 2008


Earlier


  • Dallas Comes to Terms with the Day that Defined It  New York Times, By Ralph Blumenthal, November 20, 2003
  • Dallas Comes to Terms with the Day that Defined It The New York Times, By Ralph Blumenthal, November 20, 2003
  • Waco - The Inside Story (Transcript) PBS, Frontline Show #1401 with Peter Boyer, October 17, 1995

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