Wilborn Hampton Oral History
Object number2009.001.0089
Date11/23/2009
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Wilborn Hampton
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.wav file)
Dimensions92 Minutes
Terms
- Motorcade
- Midnight press conference
- Oral histories
- Hampton, Wilborn
- Smith, Merriman
- Oswald, Lee Harvey
- United Press International (UPI)
- Parkland Hospital
- The New York Times
- Dallas Police Headquarters
- Dallas Municipal Building
- Dallas
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- News Media (OHC)
- Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
- Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
DescriptionAudio oral history interview with Wilborn Hampton. The youngest United Press International (UPI) reporter at the Dallas bureau, Hampton took the call from Merriman Smith in the motorcade reporting the president's shooting. Hampton spent time that weekend at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas City Hall, where he attended Oswald's midnight press conference. Years later, while serving as an editor at The New York Times, Hampton wrote a series of young adult history books, including "Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story" (1997).
Interview conducted by telephone on November 23, 2009 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirty-two minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryWilborn Hampton will be our Living History speaker in April 2013. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
March 1997 - April 1997
United Press International (UPI)
11/25/1963