Linda Ferguson Oral History

Object number2002.001.0012

Date04/26/2002

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Linda Ferguson

Oral history interviewer Arlinda Abbott

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 37 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Linda Ferguson. A fourteen-year-old Dallas schoolgirl in 1963, Ferguson observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. The following year, she was a local volunteer with the Lyndon Johnson presidential campaign. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 26, 2002 by Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-seven minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Interviewed in 2002, Linda Sank Ferguson was among the first Lemmon Avenue motorcade spectators to take part in the Museum's Oral History Project. Since that time, more than thirty other bystanders who observed President and Mrs. Kennedy along Lemmon Avenue have recorded interviews with the Museum. Some of these recollections from Lemmon Avenue may be found on the Museum's YouTube channel, including Living History programs with Rawlins Gilliland (2024), Richard Clark (2024) and Betty Duke-Ruhd (2019): Living Histories - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator