Peggy Simpson Oral History

Object number2005.001.0009

Date04/11/2005

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Peggy Simpson

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 71 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Peggy Simpson. The only female Associated Press reporter working in Texas in 1963, Simpson covered the events of the Kennedy assassination weekend at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters. On Sunday morning, she was an eyewitness to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 11, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Peggy Simpson worked for the Associated Press from 1962 to 1979, during which time she was a plaintiff in a gender and discrimination lawsuit against the AP. She later worked for the Boston Herald and other newspapers before opening a Washington, D.C. bureau for Ms. Magazine. In 1990, she became an adjunct professor of journalism at Indiana University. - Stephen Fagin, Curator