/internal/media/dispatcher/75690/fullJan Howes Oral History04/14/2010Duration: 51 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.001.00260Videotaped oral history interview with Jan Howes. The daughter of the late John Mazziotta, chief photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, and Peggie Mazziotta, the city's first female photojournalist, Howes was attending a Catholic school in Oak Cliff at the time of the Kennedy assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 14, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-one minutes long.Oral Histories720780E-100E-1032310Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Jan Howes. The daughter of the late John Mazziotta, chief photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, and Peggie Mazziotta, the city's first female photojournalist, Howes was attending a Catholic school in Oak Cliff at the time of the Kennedy assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 14, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-one minutes long.Oral historiesStudentPhotographerOak CliffCatholicismNewspapersChildhoodHowes, JanMazziotta, JohnMazziotta, PeggieKennedy, John F.Dallas Times HeraldDallas Trade MartDallas Press ClubThe Dallas Morning NewsParkland HospitalLove FieldDallasChildhood Recollections (OHC)Love Field Airport (OHC)Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)News Media (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)The Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection (1989.100) includes several images attributed to Jan Howes' late father, chief photographer John Mazziotta. "Mazz," as he was affectionately known by his colleagues, was at Dallas Love Field, the Dallas Trade Mart and Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day of the Kennedy assassination. One notable photograph that he took that day was the "Weclome President and Mrs. Kennedy" marquee outside the Trade Mart: Image of Dallas Police officers standing guard outside the Dallas Trade Mart – Search mazziotta (Objects) – Search – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
In this double-exposure from Love Field, captured either by Dallas Times Herald photographer Eamon Kennedy or Bob Jackson, John Mazziotta is visible holding his camera on the right side of the image: Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd at Love Field – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. John Mazziotta passed away on November 15, 1989 at the age of 73. Prior to his long career at the Dallas Times Herald (1960 to 1979), "Mazz" worked at both the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News.
Jan Howes' late mother, Peggie Spencer Mazziotta, was married to John Mazziotta at the time of the assassination. The couple divorced in 1977. She passed away at the age of 83 on April 25, 2011. Peggie Mazziotta recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2009, detailing her photography career in the 1950s and 1960s. The full recording may be accessed here: Peggie Mazziotta Oral History – Search peggie (Objects) – Search – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator