/internal/media/dispatcher/75369/fullThomas N. Smith Oral History04/09/2010Duration: 66 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.001.00250Videotaped oral history interview with Thomas N. Smith. Fourteen years old in 1963, Smith saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. In 1964, he attended one day of the Jack Ruby trial. The letter he wrote to Jackie Kennedy on November 23, 1963, was later selected for publication in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, "Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation" (2010).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 9, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and six minutes long.Oral Histories634510E-100E-1032309Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Thomas N. Smith. Fourteen years old in 1963, Smith saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. In 1964, he attended one day of the Jack Ruby trial. The letter he wrote to Jackie Kennedy on November 23, 1963, was later selected for publication in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, "Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation" (2010).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 9, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and six minutes long.Oral historiesStudentMotorcadeJack Ruby trialLettersLimousineWitnessesMotorcyclesDealey PlazaAssassinationMain StreetSmith, Thomas N.Kennedy, JacquelineKennedy, John F.Fitzpatrick, EllenRuby, JackDallasAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (2010), may be found here in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for Letters to Jackie. Dr. Fitzpatrick participated in a public program at the Museum in 2010, which may be viewed here on the Museum's YouTube channel: Letters To Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (youtube.com).
Over the years, the Museum has recorded oral histories with more than a dozen individuals whose condolence letters were selected for publication in the book. In addition to this interview with Thomas N. Smith, an interview with Jane Dryden Louis - who wrote more than two dozen letters to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination - may be found here: Jane Dryden Louis Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org). - Stephen Fagin, Curator