Tampa Arts and Culture Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Suzette M. Berkman
Publication Date
11-14-2007
Date
2007-04-26
Abstract
Richard "Dick" Lobo, President and CEO of WEDU (Tampa's local PBS television station), discusses his Cuban heritage and growing up in Tampa's Ybor City and New York's Spanish Harlem. He discusses his career as a news reporter for an NBC television affiliate in Miami (1959) when he had the opportunity to interview numerous political figures, including Rafael Trujillo, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, and Fidel Castro. Mr. Lobo also discusses his career at CBS in New York from 1963 to 1970 where he interviewed political figures such as Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy. The interview ends with a lengthy discussion of WEDU, its programming, its audience, and its role in the Tampa Bay community.
Keywords
Public television, WEDU (Television station : Tampa Fla.), Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (1891-1961), François Duvalier (1907-1971), Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Malcolm X (1925-1965), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
Extent
02:30:48; 71 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Ybor City (Tampa, Fla.); New York (N.Y.); East Harlem (New York, N.Y.); Miami (Fla.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2007
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
T31-00005
Recommended Citation
Lobo, Richard, "Dick Lobo Oral History Interview" (2007). Tampa Arts and Culture Oral History Project. 9.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/arts_culture_ohp/9
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