/internal/media/dispatcher/73770/fullFather Thomas Shepherd Oral History07/21/2011Duration: 56 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2011.001.00610Videotaped oral history interview with Father Thomas Shepherd. A onetime recruiter with the NAACP, Father Shepherd later founded the civil rights organization, Awareness, Inc. While living in Kentucky in the mid-1960s, he participated in a march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interview conducted at [location] on July 21, 2011 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The video 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 Histories647740E-100E-1033053Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.Oral historiesCivil rightsProtestsKing, Martin Luther, Jr.Shepherd, ThomasAwareness, Inc.NAACPDallasKentuckyCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)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