Val Imm
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Val Imm’s Sixth Floor Museum Interview
I am in the middle of transcribing the July 23, 1997, videotaped oral history of Val Imm. It is part if the Sixth Floor Museum’s oral history project in relation to the JFK assassination – but also explores Dallas overall. (Val was at Love Field when the president and first lady arrived.) Val was the society editor at the Dallas Times-Herald from 1960 to 1970. She reported to Vivian Castleberry who I am writing about. She won several awards for her work. She looked at society writing as sociology rather than high society. It was the same approach that Charlotte Curtis took at the New York Times.
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Val Imm’s Sixth Floor Museum Interview
I am in the middle of transcribing the July 23, 1997, videotaped oral history of Val Imm. It is part if the Sixth Floor Museum’s oral history project in relation to the JFK assassination – but also explores Dallas overall. (Val was at Love Field when the president and first lady arrived.) Val was the society editor at the Dallas Times-Herald from 1960 to 1970. She reported to Vivian Castleberry who I am writing about. She won several awards for her work. She looked at society writing as sociology rather than high society. It was the same approach that Charlotte Curtis took at the New York Times.
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Women’s Page coverage of child abuse
In the 1960s, the women’s pages were the first places where the coverage of child abuse could be found. The above story was one of several written by Val Imm that appeared in the the Dallas Times Herald. The series was initiated by editor Vivian Castleberry would was tipped off by a woman at a Dallas medical center who saw injured children coming in. This coverage led to a community-wide discussion of the issue, centers for abuse and later legislation that truly make this a crime.
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Women’s Page coverage of child abuse
In the 1960s, the women’s pages were the first places where the coverage of child abuse could be found. The above story was one of several written by Val Imm that appeared in the the Dallas Times Herald. The series was initiated by editor Vivian Castleberry would was tipped off by a woman at a Dallas medical center who saw injured children coming in. This coverage led to a community-wide discussion of the issue, centers for abuse and later legislation that truly make this a crime.
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Val Imm and the Dallas Times-Herald
While researching the career of Dallas Times-Herald women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry, I came across the name of reporter Val Imm. Here is a 2007 article about her. In most media accounts she is described as the society reporter. While she did cover society, she also did some wonderful reporting that was far from society. Consider this lead that Val wrote: “The house at 3002 Knight St. is haunted. Haunted by the sounds of children who have no one to love them. Haunted by the sobs of children who wake up in terror from nightmares. Haunted by a community that has only begun to hear the cries. Such children –…
