Naming the Astrodome (1963)

Duration: 1:59

Year Published: 1963

Sound: sound

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on November 26, 1963, interviews Harris County Judge William M. Elliott about calls to name what was then informally known as the Harris County Domed Stadium after the late President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas four days earlier. The stadium opened as the Astrodome in 1965.