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New Orleans Television
by Dominic Massa

New Orleans Television uses close to 200 archival photographs to trace the history of local TV from its earliest days in 1948, with memories of popular programs and personalities from over the past 60 years.

Jim Tolhurst is featured on pages 60 & 61. Thanks, Dominic!

Photo Gallery

Jazz funeral in the French Quarter -- early to mid 1960's.

Del Hall, Mike Lala, Ginger Hall and Jim Tolhurst.
Tolhurst and Lala were two of the first three news cameramen in N.O. television.
The third is M.J. Gautier. -- early 1990's.

Phil Johnson and Jim Tolhurst -- 1972.

Tolhurst and Johnson -- early 1990's.

Tolhurst on location shooting one of the plantation documentaries.