/internal/media/dispatcher/75905/fullCarrol Coleman Oral History04/26/2013Duration: 15 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.00530Videotaped oral history interview with Carrol Coleman. An insurance salesman in Dallas in 1963, Coleman made a joke about a possible shooting before learning that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Although not a Kennedy supporter, he was deeply impacted by the president's death.
Interview conducted at Grace Presbyterian Village retirement community in Dallas on April 26, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifteen minutes long.
Oral Histories724110E-100E-1038363Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Carrol Coleman. An insurance salesman in Dallas in 1963, Coleman made a joke about a possible shooting before learning that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Although not a Kennedy supporter, he was deeply impacted by the president's death.
Interview conducted at Grace Presbyterian Village retirement community in Dallas on April 26, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifteen minutes long.
Oral historiesAssassinationHumorMourningDallasDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)During this 2013 outreach visit to Grace Presbyterian Village in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, I recorded oral histories with eight residents. - Stephen Fagin, Curator Carrol Coleman passed away on January 10, 2014, a little more than eight months after this interview was recorded. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorSince 2010, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has actively engaged in community outreach to grow the institution's ongoing Oral History Project. Unlike the one-on-one interviews recorded onsite at the Museum or via Zoom or telephone, community outreach recordings are typically brief, on-the-spot reflections of President Kennedy and the weekend of the assassination that, on average, run between five to fifteen minutes. During a typical outreach visit to a retirement home, church or community center, I give a half-hour presentation about the assassination and the Museum's project and encourage those in attendance to add their voices to this tapestry of living memory. Following the program, somewhat like a doctor's office, I call on volunteers to sit down with me one-on-one, one after another to briefly share their memories. These impromptu recordings have, over the years, uncovered a wealth of untold stories and hidden gems. Among the dozens of everyday memories of hearing about the Kennedy assassination at work, in a restaurant or at school, are a number of Kennedy motorcade spectators, Parkland Hospital personnel, attendees of the Fort Worth breakfast or Dallas Trade Mart luncheon, acquaintances of Jack Ruby, Peace Corps volunteers, civil rights activists and even one local FBI agent, long since retired from the Bureau. It has been an honor to record these and other unique stories related to the life, death and legacy of President Kennedy and the broader history and culture of the 1960s. If you live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and are interested in scheduling an oral history outreach visit for your retirement community or organization, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. - Stephen Fagin, Curator