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Friday, December 06, 2019

Steven Romo's great grandmother witnessed JFK assassination

abc13 KTRK weekend morning anchor Steven Romo's great grandmother worked for Zapruder and was in Dealey Plaza day of JFK assassination


I now interrupt our regularly scheduled Houston TV news pregnancy/birth announcement for news on something else...

UPDATE JULY 2021

abc13 KTRK weekend morning anchor Steven Romo posted some interesting news that I missed a month ago, but is still relevant based on the time of year.

In the photo (embedded below), Romo is featured in Dallas' Dealey Plaza where he offered the following personal information:

Standing in roughly the same spot my great grandmother did almost 56 years ago in Dealey Plaza as she waited for President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade to pass by.

She worked as a seamstress for Abraham Zapruder. She moved to Dallas from Alabama after being beaten for years by her husband. She escaped that traumatic life and started over – only to find herself in the middle of one of the most traumatic events in US history.

Nothing could stop her though. She went back to work the next week. Maudie Bell Richardson died in 2004. One of the strongest and most humble people I’ve ever known

Great story.

The Dallas native joined channel 13 Houston in 2016. Before Houston, he worked for KJRH in Tulsa, OK, KCEN's KAGS-HD newscasts Bryan/College Station, KZTV Action 10 News Corpus Christi, KRIS 6 Corpus Christi, KAUZ Wichita Falls and KFDX Wichita Falls.




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