Dr. John Mark Dempsey is an associate professor of radio-television at Texas A&M University-Commerce.He has published four books, The Jack Ruby Trial Revisited: The Diary of Jury Foreman Max Causey; The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air!;  Eddie Barker’s Notebook: Stories That Made the News (and Some Better Ones That Didn’t!); and Sports Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture.

Dr. Dempsey has worked in commercial broadcasting as a radio news anchor and producer for the Texas State Network in Dallas since 1998.

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from East Texas State University and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Dempsey’s wife Tricia and children Jenny and Mike live in rural Delta County, east of Commerce, with assorted horses, cats and dogs.

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Contact

Phone: 903-886-5345

Email: John_Dempsey@TAMU-Commerce.edu

Office: Performing Arts Center 130