Dr. Duane and Glenda Keilstrup Oral History

Object number2013.001.0009

Date02/01/2013

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Dr. Duane V. Keilstrup

Oral history interview subject Glenda Keilstrup

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 49 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. Duane and Glenda Keilstrup. A professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than three decades, Duane Keilstrup asked his 1963 classes to write essays expressing their thoughts and feelings immediately following the Kennedy assassination. He and his wife, Glenda, who was also at UTA that day, donated those student essays to the Museum in 2013. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 1, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Donated at the time of this oral history, the Duane Keilstrup Family Collection (2013.015) includes sixty-six essays submitted by students at Arlington State College (now the University of Texas at Arlington) on November 26-27, 1963, as well as personal notes and other materials. One of the student essays may be read here in our online collections database: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/41794. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator