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Joyce Jackson, first Black female journalist on Oklahoma TV, talks past, present and future of fight for social justice Share Updated: 3:47 PM CST Feb 15, 2021 Share Updated: 3:47 PM CST Feb 15, 2021
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Show Transcript JASON IT’S REALLY COOL TO GET : YOU IN THE STUDIO YOU USED TO WORK. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALL THIS, THE ROBOTIC CAMERA? I’M JUST AMAZED WITH ALL THE CHANGES AND ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING DONE HERE. JASON THEY DIDN’T HAVE THIS MANY : LIGHTS. NO ABSOLUTELY NOT. WHERE I FIRST STARTED IN TELEVISION, I WAS A GOPHER. I WORKED FOR JOHN HARRISON WHO WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT. HE HIRED ME TO COME TO WORK TO BE PART TIME RECEPTIONIST, AND TOUR GUIDE, BUT MOSTLY HIS ASSISTAN JASON: HOW DID YOU END UP BEING ON AIR AND IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA WELL I HAD BEEN HERE ABOUT 6 MONTHS, AND JOHN CALLED ME IN THE OFFICE AND HE SAID HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF BEING ON TELEVISION? AND I SAID NO. JOYCE 7:43 THEY
History & Hope: First Black female journalist on Oklahoma TV talks of fight for social justice Share Updated: 6:39 AM EST Feb 13, 2021 Jason Hackett Share Updated: 6:39 AM EST Feb 13, 2021
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Show Transcript they brought me down to the studio, put me in front of the cameras, and as much as I run my mouth, I couldn t talk. They kept asking me questions. And then the tears start rolling. You cried? Yes, I cried because I was. I was just afraid. You know, I afraid of the unknown. How was it being a black voice in a sea of white voices at that time? Did you feel the weight of those expectations? Yes. Then people looking up to you? Yes, absolutely. But of course, I had a lot of, uh, detractors. We had a lot of coals to get that person awful of the air. Why do you have that person on the air? But the community was very supportive. I think there should be a, um or a better effort to reach the community and to make sure that the