Father Thomas Shepherd Oral History

Object number2011.001.0061

Date07/21/2011

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Father Thomas Shepherd

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 56 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Father Thomas Shepherd. A onetime recruiter with the NAACP, Father Shepherd later founded a civil rights organization called Awareness, Inc. While living in Kentucky in the mid-1960s, he once participated in a march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 21, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-six minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Father Thomas Shepherd, a resident of Euless, TX at the time of this interview, volunteered for an oral history during a 2011 outreach visit to the downtown Dallas Public Library. Through community outreach, the Museum continues to capture a wide variety of diverse stories from the 1960s. If your organization, church, or community center would like to inquire about oral history outreach in the DFW area, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator