Janet Cormier Oral History

Object number2014.001.0128

Date10/07/2014

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Janet Cormier

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 20 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Janet Cormier. Cormier was a Kennedy volunteer in Boston during the 1960 presidential election. She saw the senator in person that year and had hoped to volunteer for his re-election campaign in 1964. Interview conducted at the Aspens at Twin Creeks retirement home in Allen, Texas on October 7, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Janet Cormier passed away on January 23, 2017. She was one of five individuals who participated in interviews during an oral history outreach visit to the Aspens at Twin Creeks retirement home in Allen, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas/Fort Worth. Other individuals interviewed that day include the late Patsy Harrison (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43248) and Aurora Wible (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43246). Following extensive media coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 2013, the year 2014 was a particularly busy year for oral history outreach, with a record thirty-five video interviews captured at six local retirement communities. - Stephen Fagin, Curator