Peggie Mazziotta Oral History

Object number2009.001.0032

Date05/14/2009

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Peggie Mazziotta

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

Oral history interviewer C. Dealey Campbell

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions55 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Peggie Mazziotta. The city's first female photojournalist, Mazziotta worked at both The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. Her late husband, John Mazziotta, was the Herald's chief photographer at the time of the Kennedy assassination. Interview conducted at Ms. Mazziotta's home on May 14, 2009 by Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator, and C. Dealey Campbell of the Dallas Historical Society. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Ms. Mazziotta passed away on April 25, 2011. Her daughter, Jan Howes, recorded an oral history with the Museum about her parents on April 14, 2010. Several photographs taken by John Mazziotta on the day of the Kennedy assassination are in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator