/internal/media/dispatcher/73742/fullEddie Griffin Living History Program02/08/2014Duration: 44 MinutesBorn digital (.mov file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2014.001.00180Videotaped Living History public program with Eddie Griffin. A Fort Worth native, Griffin was outside the Hotel Texas when the Kennedys arrived on the night of November 21, 1963. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, Griffin traveled across the country and became active with the Black Panthers.
Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 8, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The program is forty-four minutes long.Oral Histories6529242996Oral historyVideotaped Living History public program with Eddie Griffin. A Fort Worth native, Griffin was outside the Hotel Texas when the Kennedys arrived on the night of November 21, 1963. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, Griffin traveled across the country and became active with the Black Panthers.
Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 8, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The program is forty-four minutes long.Oral historiesFort WorthCivil rightsTrip to TexasKennedy, John F.Hotel TexasBlack Panther PartyFort Worth Chamber of CommerceDallasFort WorthFort Worth (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)In addition to this program, Eddie Griffin was also part of a panel discussion, "Civil Rights in Modern America," presented in partnership with the Fort Worth Opera on November 19, 2015. That program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Civil Rights in Modern America - YouTube. Mr. Griffin passed away on May 6, 2023. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.