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Thomas Sills Jr. Oral History

Thomas Sills Jr. Oral History

Object number2008.001.0052
Date06/30/2008
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Thomas Sills Jr.
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 44 Minutes
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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Thomas Sills Jr. Nine years old in 1963, Sills and his late father observed the Kennedy motorcade from the corner of Main and Houston Streets. They were crossing Houston Street towards Dealey Plaza when they heard shots fired and witnessed the immediate aftermath of the assassination. A high school history teacher for decades, Sills frequently taught a unit on the Kennedy assassination and shared his eyewitness account with his students. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 30, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Mr. Sills identified himself as a Dealey Plaza eyewitness when he brought his history class from Coppell High School (Coppell, Texas) to The Sixth Floor Museum on a field trip in 2008. We recorded this interview during his summer break that year. A student article about his memories of the Kennedy assassination was later published on the Coppell Student Media website in November 2015: Sills witnesses history on fateful day in Dallas – Coppell Student Media. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator