Date and Time: July 10, 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. ET
In Their Own Words: Oral History and the Kennedy Assassination | Special Topics (Summer PD 2025)
About This Session
Discover the Oral History Project at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and experience November 22, 1963, through the firsthand accounts of those who were there. Then take a behind-the-scenes look at the process of oral history and learn helpful tips on how to capture and utilize these extraordinary primary resources.
This session is sponsored by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Located inside the former Texas School Book Depository Building in downtown Dallas, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey attracts visitors from all over the United States and across the world. In 1989, the main exhibit, John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation, opened to the public on the sixth floor where critical evidence was found linked to President Kennedy’s Assassination on November 22, 1963. The exhibit is divided into key historical sections with contextual overlays following the path of John F. Kennedy’s life, death, and legacy. The museum encourages visitors to examine the evolution of today’s global society through Kennedy’s presidential legacy.