/internal/media/dispatcher/75788/fullKeith Shelton Oral History01/12/2011Duration: 50 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2011.001.00010Videotaped oral history interview with Keith Shelton. A political reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, Shelton traveled with the presidential party during the November 1963 trip to Texas. Aboard a White House press bus in the Dallas motorcade, he heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza and went to the Dallas Trade Mart. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial. Shelton, later a longtime journalism professor at the University of North Texas, donated his assassination-related papers to The Sixth Floor Museum.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 12, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.Oral Histories722340E-100E-1032993Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Keith Shelton. A political reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, Shelton traveled with the presidential party during the November 1963 trip to Texas. Aboard a White House press bus in the Dallas motorcade, he heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza and went to the Dallas Trade Mart. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial. Shelton, later a longtime journalism professor at the University of North Texas, donated his assassination-related papers to The Sixth Floor Museum.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 12, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.Oral historiesReporterJack Ruby trialPressNewspapersShelton, KeithJackson, BobDallas Times HeraldDallas Trade MartDallas Market HallDallasNews Media (OHC)Fort Worth (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Thirteen years prior to this 2011 oral history, Keith Shelton recorded an interview at The Sixth Floor Museum on February 21, 1998. That recording may be found here: Keith Shelton Oral History – Search shelton (Objects) – Search – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
He later participated in a Living History public program in 2014, which may be found here on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Keith Shelton. - Stephen Fagin, Curator James Keith Shelton passed away on December 11, 2024 at the age of 92. - Stephen Fagin, Curator