/internal/media/dispatcher/73651/fullWilborn Hampton Oral History11/23/200992 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2009.001.00890Audio 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 with word of 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 a longtime 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).Oral Histories6391529902Oral historyAudio 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.MotorcadeMidnight press conferenceOral historiesHampton, WilbornSmith, MerrimanOswald, Lee HarveyUnited Press International (UPI)Parkland HospitalThe New York TimesDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallasAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)News Media (OHC)Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)Wilborn Hampton will be our Living History speaker in April 2013. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator