/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullJill Zarnowitz Oral History10/05/2010Duration: 22 MinutesBorn digital (.mp3 file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.001.01160Audiotaped oral history interview with Jill Zarnowitz. A sixth grader in San Diego, California, in 1963, Zarnowitz and her parents were active in the civil rights movement. The letter she wrote to Jackie Kennedy as part of a class project was included in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, "Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation" (2010).
Interview conducted by telephone on October 5, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-two minutes long.Oral Histories7266132400Oral historyAudiotaped oral history interview with Jill Zarnowitz. A sixth grader in San Diego, California, in 1963, Zarnowitz and her parents were active in the civil rights movement. The letter she wrote to Jackie Kennedy as part of a class project was included in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, "Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation" (2010).
Interview conducted by telephone on October 5, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-two minutes long.Oral historiesStudentCivil rightsLettersNational responseYouthAssassinationCold WarLegacyZarnowitz, JillKennedy, JacquelineSan DiegoAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (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.
Over the years, the Museum has recorded oral histories with more than one dozen individuals whose condolence letters were selected for publication in the book. In addition to Jill Zarnowitz, the Museum has recorded interviews with Thomas N. Smith (Thomas N. Smith Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza) and Jane Dryden Louis (Jane Dryden Louis Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza). Louis more recently also participated in a 2025 Living History program at the Museum: Living History with Jane Dryden Louis. - Stephen Fagin, Curator