/internal/media/dispatcher/72883/fullRabbi Sidney Zimelman Oral History03/11/2013Duration: 55 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.00220Videotaped oral history interview with Rabbi Sidney Zimelman. While serving in the U.S. Air Force in Japan, Zimelman was selected to give a radio eulogy for President Kennedy on the Far East Armed Forces Network. His memorial service was broadcast live from Tokyo on November 23, 1963.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.Oral Histories6429638332Oral historyOral historiesEulogyMilitary serviceRadioMemorial servicesU.S. Air ForceDallasTokyoDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)We first learned about Rabbi Sidney Zimelman when he contacted the Museum in early 2013 looking for a printed copy of his radio eulogy. Our librarian/archivist and her intern at the time spent quite a lot of time searching various archives, including the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the National Archives, the Library of Congress and even the Armed Forces Network archive. Unfortunately, as of 2022, we have never been able to locate a copy of Rabbi Zimelman's remarks. We do, however, have in our Library a 200-page collection of sermons given in the aftermath of the assassinations. A Man Named John F. Kennedy, edited by Charles Stewart and Bruce Kendall, was published by Paulist Press in 1964: Koha | Details for A man named John F. Kennedy; (bibliovation.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator