Carol Chazdon Oral History
Object number2011.001.0088
Date10/13/2011
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Carol Chazdon
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 36 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Carol Chazdon. Twelve years old in 1963, Chazdon wrote a poignant essay about the Kennedy assassination one week after the tragedy. She shared this essay during her oral history.
Interview conducted at the Renaissance Denver Hotel in Denver, Colorado on October 13, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-six minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryIn 2011, when Boulder, Colorado resident Carol "Chaz" Chazdon shared with the Museum a childhood essay she had written about the assassination, we naturally invited her to record an oral history. Since I was scheduled to speak at the Oral History Association annual conference in Denver later in the year, rather than record a telephone interview, we arranged for Ms. Chazdon to meet me at my hotel to record a video interview. As it turned out, we recorded her oral history inside a conference room that, just a few moments earlier, had been the site of a panel discussion about the process of recording oral histories. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
