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Lisa Hembry Oral History

Lisa Hembry Oral History

Object number2012.001.0086
Date10/15/2012
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Lisa Hembry
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 27 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Lisa Hembry. A community leader who has served as president of the Dallas Historical Society (1999-2001) and Dallas County Treasurer (2002-2006), Hembry was a student in Oak Cliff in 1963. She saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 15, 2012 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-seven minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Lisa Hembry, an eighth grade student at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Oak Cliff, skipped class with friends to see the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. Following this 2012 oral history recording, she identified herself in a crowd photograph taken on Main Street immediately after the presidential parade passed that location. She appears in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection image 1989.100.0009.0001. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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