/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullBill Lacy Oral History01/24/2013Duration: 35 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.01540Audio oral history interview with Bill Lacy. An engineer doing survey work at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, Lacy observed the Kennedy motorcade. Several of his conservative coworkers clapped when they learned of the assassination.
Interview conducted on January 24, 2013 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories652560E-100E-1042702Oral history0E-10Audio oral history interview with Bill Lacy. An engineer doing survey work at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, Lacy observed the Kennedy motorcade. Several of his conservative coworkers clapped when they learned of the assassination.
Interview conducted by telephone on January 24, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-five minutes long.
Oral historiesMotorcadeConservativesParkland HospitalDallasMotorcade Spectators (OHC)Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)Bill Lacy's memory of his co-workers clapping upon learning of the assassination was not an isolated experience, nor was it limited to Dallas. A number of oral histories share similar anecdotes, including Dan Spigel, who remembers some Mississippi co-workers cheering news of President Kennedy's death. Among the 1960s schoolchildren who remember classmates cheering or clapping at word of the assassination are Daphne Cagle, Alice McCurdy, John Savage, Debra Fagin and high school teacher Joanna Shields. After hearing about this reaction among students in a Dallas elementary school, Methodist minister William A. Holmes preached a controversial sermon on Sunday, November 24, that attracted worldwide criticism of Dallas. The story behind Rev. Holmes's sermon may be found here: An Evening with Rev. William A. Holmes (youtube.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator