John Herbers Oral History

Object number2014.001.0158

Date03/06/2014

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject John Herbers

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.wav file)

DimensionsDuration: 34 Minutes

Collections

DescriptionAudio oral history interview with John Herbers. Herbers covered the Civil Rights Movement for the Mississippi bureau of UPI from 1953 to 1963. He joined the staff of the New York Times shortly before the Kennedy assassination and wrote a number of stories from Dallas during the aftermath. Interview conducted by telephone on March 6, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-four minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

John Herbers passed away on March 17, 2017. His memoir, Deep South Dispatch, was posthumously published in 2018, co-authored with his daughter, journalism professor Anne Farris Rosen. It may be found here in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for Deep South dispatch.

Anne Farris Rosen recorded an oral history in 2019. She also participated in a Museum public program about her late father's career in 2019, which may be viewed here: Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist. - Stephen Fagin, Curator