Jim Pritchett Oral History
Object number2010.001.0073
Date07/13/2010
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Jim Pritchett
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 36 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Jim Pritchett. A student at Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas, Pritchett received parental permission to go with a group of classmates to see the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. Pritchett kept his original permission slip and donated it to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2010.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 13, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-six minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThe Museum's Pritchett Family Collection (2010.023) includes one 8.5x11" permission notice from Cistercian Prep School in Dallas, dated November 21, 1963. The typed note, from the school's headmaster, indicates that parents wishing to take their children to see the presidential motorcade the following day may pick them up from school at 11AM and should return them by 2:15PM. At the bottom of the typed note is the handwritten message: "James has our permission to go see President Kennedy with Mrs. Kureletz. Thank you, Mrs. Pritchett." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
On the same day as this interview with Jim Pritchett, his brother, Stephen D. Pritchett, also recorded an oral history. Standing with his father on Main Street, Stephen Pritchett observed the Kennedy motorcade approximately two minutes prior to the assassination. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
