John Updike Oral History
Object number2008.001.0001
Date01/10/2008
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
John Updike
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
Dimensions14 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with John Updike. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Updike was a prolific American novelist, poet and literary critic. He was at a dental appointment in Massachusetts when he learned that President Kennedy had been shot. He wrote a short piece in "The New Yorker" in response to the assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 10, 2008 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fourteen minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryMr. Updike passed away on January 27, 2009. His memories of being in the dentist chair when he learned of the Kennedy assassination were incorporated into his best-selling 1968 novel Couples. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
Associated Press (AP)
11/22/1963
Rev. Richard Deats
11/27/1963 - 11/28/1963
