/internal/media/dispatcher/73891/fullEileen Albert Oral History07/01/2010Duration: 17 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.001.00640Videotaped oral history interview with Eileen Albert. A home economics teacher in 1963, Albert visited the Capitol Rotunda on the weekend of the assassination to pay her respects to President Kennedy. At that time, her parents were participating in "Operation Peter Pan," caring for a twelve-year-old Cuban girl for one year until her mother could settle in Miami.
Interview conducted at [location] on July 1, 2010 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories639340E-100E-1032348Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Eileen Albert. A home economics teacher in 1963, Albert visited the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on the weekend of the assassination to pay her respects to President Kennedy. At that time, her parents were participating in "Operation Peter Pan," caring for a twelve-year-old Cuban girl for one year until her mother could settle in Miami.
Interview conducted at C.C. Young retirement community on July 1, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is seventeen minutes long.
Oral historiesCubaRotundaAlbert, EileenU.S. CapitolWashington, D.C.MiamiDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Kennedy Funeral (OHC)Cold War and Communism (OHC)Cuba (OHC)Eileen Albert passed away on February 22, 2018. - Riley Harris, Collections CatalogerIn 2010, I was invited by the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas to speak to three groups of senior citizens who were participating in a cognitive vitality study. After each presentation (April, July and November), I invited seniors to record brief one-on-one oral histories about their memories of President Kennedy and the assassination. This was the first time that the Museum had conducted short, on-the-spot interviews as part of community outreach. These 2010 sessions, during which twenty-five seniors recorded brief interviews, proved to be so successful that the Museum has actively pursued oral history community outreach ever since. Each year, brief interviews are recorded with a wide variety of personalities at retirement homes, churches and community centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Ms. Albert, who passed away on February 22, 2018, was interviewed as part of the second group of seniors in the UTD study. All interviews were recorded at C.C. Young retirement community in Dallas. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator