{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"44062"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Vivian Castleberry. Considered the \"grandmother of women journalists in Dallas,\" Castleberry was the editor of women's news at the Dallas Times Herald from 1956 to 1984. On the day of the Kennedy assassination, she was waiting at the Dallas Trade Mart to cover Jackie Kennedy's visit to the city. After the shooting, Castleberry worked in the Dallas Times Herald newsroom and wrote several human interest stories that weekend.  \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 15, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2015.001.0082"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Vivian Castleberry. Considered the \"grandmother of women journalists in Dallas,\" Castleberry was the editor of women's news at the Dallas Times Herald from 1956 to 1984. On the day of the Kennedy assassination, she was waiting at the Dallas Trade Mart to cover Jackie Kennedy's visit to the city. After the shooting, Castleberry worked in the Dallas Times Herald newsroom and wrote several human interest stories that weekend.  \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 15, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75796/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75796"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75812/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75812"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Vivian Castleberry Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75796/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Trade Mart luncheon","Interviews","Trip to Texas","Press","Newspapers","Reporter","Ruby, Jack","Oswald, Lee Harvey","Castleberry, Vivian","Kennedy, Jacqueline","Dallas Times Herald","Dallas Trade Mart","Dallas","Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)","News Media (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Jack Ruby (OHC)","Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"06/15/2015"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Even after having recorded more than 1,500 oral history interviews, whenever I am asked to name my favorite interview subject, without hesitation I say that Vivian Castleberry is near the top of that list. I met Vivian at a public program early on in my career at The Sixth Floor Museum, and I was struck immediately by her warmth, humor and quiet intelligence. Even though she had previously recorded an audio interview with the Museum in 1991, I was eager to get her in front of our videocamera for a longer, broader interview about her legendary career in journalism. An excellent 2004 recording, over a year in planning due to her very busy schedule, remains my favorite of the several sessions I enjoyed with Vivian Castleberry. It may be viewed here: Vivian Castleberry Oral History \u2013 Search vivian (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Three days earlier, I had recorded an interview with her daughter, Carol Tate. \r\n\r\nFollowing our 2004 session, I had the great pleasure of moderating three educational programs with Vivian on our seventh floor between 2006 and 2009. And finally, recognizing the inevitable passage of time, I invited her back for this final one-on-one interview in 2015. This was a bittersweet conversation for me, perhaps for both of us, and we knew that this would be our last recording together. And here in 2025, ten years later, I still find myself wishing I could sit down and talk with her just once more. Vivian passed away on October 4, 2017. She left behind a remarkable legacy as the grandmother of Dallas journalism. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator","The Museum's Vivian Castleberry Collection, which includes her press badge and reporter's notebook from November 22, 1963, as well as other related objects, may be found here in the Museum's online collections database: Thesaurus \u2013 Vocabularies \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"72243"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 59 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}