Bob Ray Sanders Living History Program

Object number2012.001.0003

Date01/13/2012

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Bob Ray Sanders

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 44 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped Living History public program with Bob Ray Sanders. A respected longtime newspaper, radio and television journalist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for more than four decades, Sanders was attending high school at an African-American school in Fort Worth in 1963. On Thanksgiving Day that year, his marching band performed a memorial tribute to President Kennedy. Sanders was later an active supporter of the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 13, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The program is forty-four minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In addition to this Living History program, Bob Ray Sanders recorded an oral history with the Museum on September 19, 2007. That interview may be accessed here: Bob Ray Sanders Oral History – Search sanders (Objects) – Search – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

Sanders also moderated multiple panel discussions at the Museum over the years, including "Call to Action: The SNCC Experience in Dallas" in 2006 (Call To Action: The SNCC Experience in Dallas) and "28 Days at the Piccadilly" in 2008: 28 Days At The Piccadilly. - Stephen Fagin, Curator