Jim Lehrer Oral History
Object number2013.001.0131
Date11/01/2013
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Jim Lehrer
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 65 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Jim Lehrer. An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, best known for the long-running PBS NewsHour program and for moderating twelve presidential debates (1988-2012), Lehrer was a reporter with the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. Assigned to Dallas Love Field, he witnessed the Secret Service remove the bubbletop from the presidential limousine shortly before the Dallas motorcade. Following the assassination, he covered Dallas police headquarters. A prolific novelist later in life, Lehrer authored Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination (2013).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 1, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and five minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryUpon Jim Lehrer's passing at age 85 on January 23, 2020, the Museum featured this oral history in a short tribute video produced for our YouTube channel: In Memory of Jim Lehrer - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
