/internal/media/dispatcher/73364/fullJim Lehrer Oral History11/01/2013Duration: 65 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.01310Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Lehrer. An award-winning broadcast journalist, author, and frequent presidential debate moderator, Lehrer was a reporter with the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. He covered the arrival at Dallas Love Field and spent much of the assassination weekend at Dallas police headquarters.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 1, 2013 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 5 minutes long.Oral Histories6431340570Oral historyVideotaped 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.Oral historiesReporterPressLehrer, JimDallas Times HeraldLove FieldDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallasNews Media (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Love Field Airport (OHC)Law Enforcement (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Artists (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Upon 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