Eamon Kennedy Oral History

Eamon Kennedy has been a longtime friend of the Museum. He first recorded an audio oral history in 1996 while living in California, unique for being the only interview in our collection that was recorded inside a restaurant over lunch. Years later, after Eamon had resettled in Dallas, he participated in this interview in May 2014. As a result of reestablishing contact with the Museum, he soon made a series of generous donations, gifting his entire collection of Kennedy-related and Jack Ruby trial photographic negatives to the Museum. Since this 2014 oral history, Eamon has participated in a series of public and educational programs. - Stephen Fagin, Curator 

In 2020, Eamon Kennedy was the subject of an award-winning radio documentary, "The Grief of a Nation," which focused on his iconic image of young Kathey Atkinson in tearful prayer at Parkland Memorial Hospital (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3454). Produced by and aired on RTE Radio 1 in Ireland, the audio documentary included excerpts from the Museum's oral history with the late Kathey Atkinson. The full forty-four-minute program may be heard here: Documentary On One - capturing the grief of a nation (rte.ie). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator