/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullSenator Harris Wofford Oral History09/21/201048 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.001.01100Audio oral history interview with Senator Harris Wofford. A onetime civil rights advisor to both President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Wofford also served as associate director of the Peace Corps (1962-66) and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1991-95). He wrote the book Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (1992).
Interview conducted at [location] on September 21, 2010 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The audio 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 Histories6346332394Oral historyAudio oral history interview with Senator Harris Wofford. A one-time civil rights advisor to both President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Wofford also served as associate director of the Peace Corps (1962-66) and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1991-95). He wrote the book "Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties" (1992).
Interview conducted on September 21, 2010 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 48 minutes long.Oral historiesPublic officialsCivil rightsWofford, HarrisKennedy, John F.King, Martin Luther, Jr.Peace CorpsWashington, D.C.Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Kennedy Family Acquaintances (OHC)White House and State Officials (OHC)Peace Corps (OHC)After Pennsylvania Senator H. John Heinz III died in a plane crash on April 4, 1991, Harris Wofford was appointed to his open Senate seat by Governor Robert Casey. This made Wofford the first Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania since 1969. He later won a special election, held in November 1991, and kept his seat in the U.S. Senate until 1994 when he narrowly lost to Congressman - and future candidate for the Republican presidential nomination - Rick Santorum. - Stephen Fagin, Curator