/internal/media/dispatcher/75793/fullKeith Shelton Living History Program07/12/2014Duration: 41 MinutesBorn digital (.mov file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2014.001.00910Videotaped Living History public program with Keith Shelton. A political reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, Shelton traveled with the presidential party during the November 1963 trip to Texas. Aboard a White House press bus in the Dallas motorcade, he heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza and went to the Dallas Trade Mart. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial. Shelton, later a longtime journalism professor at the University of North Texas, donated his assassination-related papers to The Sixth Floor Museum.
Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 12, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-one minutes long.Oral Histories722400E-100E-1043171Oral history0E-10Videotaped Living History public program with Keith Shelton. A political reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, Shelton traveled with the presidential party during the November 1963 trip to Texas. Aboard a White House press bus in the Dallas motorcade, he heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza and went to the Dallas Trade Mart. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial. Shelton, later a longtime journalism professor at the University of North Texas, donated his assassination-related papers to The Sixth Floor Museum.
Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 12, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-one minutes long.Oral historiesTrip to TexasMotorcadeWhite House press busDealey PlazaJack Ruby trialPressNewspapersReporterShelton, KeithDallas Times HeraldDallas Trade MartDallasNews Media (OHC)Love Field Airport (OHC)Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses (OHC) In addition to this Living History public program, Keith Shelton recorded one-on-one oral history interviews with the Museum in 1998 (Keith Shelton Oral History – Search shelton (Objects) – Search – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza) and in 2011.
He passed away on December 11, 2024. - Stephen Fagin, Curator