/internal/media/dispatcher/75909/fullHoward Hertz Oral History06/23/2014Duration: 11 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2014.001.00760Videotaped oral history interview with Howard Hertz. Hertz was a sales representative for New York clothing manufacturers in 1963 and worked with a number of companies in Dallas. He was familiar with Abraham Zapruder's business, Jennifer Juniors Inc., though he did not know Zapruder personally.
Interview conducted at The Vantage at Cityview retirement community in Fort Worth on June 23, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is eleven minutes long.
Oral Histories724150E-100E-1043137Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Howard Hertz. Hertz was a sales representative for New York clothing manufacturers in 1963 and worked with a number of companies in Dallas. He was familiar with Abraham Zapruder's business, Jennifer Juniors Inc., though he did not know Zapruder personally.
Interview conducted at The Vantage at Cityview retirement community in Fort Worth on June 23, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is eleven minutes long.Oral historiesAssassinationZapruder, AbrahamZapruder FamilyJennifer JuniorsDallasNew YorkAbraham Zapruder Film (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)This visit to The Vantage at Cityview retirement community was the Museum's first outreach in Fort Worth. A total of ten residents at The Vantage recorded interviews, briefly setting a one-day record for the Oral History Project (which was overtaken six months later when I recorded eleven interviews in one day at the Jewish Community Center in Dallas).
One notable interview recorded on this day at The Vantage was the late Bettye Baccus (Bettye Baccus Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza). Her powerful memories of seeing President and Mrs. Kennedy at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth on the night of November 21 have been featured in Museum interactives and educational programming over the years. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorHoward Hertz passed away on December 16, 2020. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorSince 2010, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has actively engaged in community outreach to grow the institution's ongoing Oral History Project. Unlike the one-on-one interviews recorded onsite at the Museum or via Zoom or telephone, community outreach recordings are typically brief, on-the-spot reflections of President Kennedy and the weekend of the assassination that, on average, run between five to fifteen minutes. During a typical outreach visit to a retirement home, church or community center, I give a half-hour presentation about the assassination and the Museum's project and encourage those in attendance to add their voices to this tapestry of living memory. Following the program, somewhat like a doctor's office, I call on volunteers to sit down with me one-on-one, one after another to briefly share their memories. These impromptu recordings have, over the years, uncovered a wealth of untold stories and hidden gems. Among the dozens of everyday memories of hearing about the Kennedy assassination at work, in a restaurant or at school, are a number of Kennedy motorcade spectators, Parkland Hospital personnel, attendees of the Fort Worth breakfast or Dallas Trade Mart luncheon, acquaintances of Jack Ruby, Peace Corps volunteers, civil rights activists and even one local FBI agent, long since retired from the Bureau. It has been an honor to record these and other unique stories related to the life, death and legacy of President Kennedy and the broader history and culture of the 1960s. If you live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and are interested in scheduling an oral history outreach visit for your retirement community or organization, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. - Stephen Fagin, Curator