Beauregard Junior High School 1955 Annual Yearbook

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Beauregard Junior High School 1955 Annual Yearbook

Object number2014.006.0001

Date1955

ClassificationsBooks

Creator Beauregard Junior High School

ObjectBook

Credit LineDorothy Davis Moye Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumPaper, Metal

Dimensions9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)

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DescriptionOne 1955 Beauregard Junior High School annual yearbook from New Orleans, Louisiana, that includes a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald as a student. The booklet is 33 pages long, printed on white pages, and the front cover has blue text reading: "Beauregard Junior High School / 1955 Annual Yearbook / Compiled by The Staff of The Bulldog's Bark." Handwritten in blue ink at the top right of the cover is "Dot Davis." The booklet is bound with two staples. Handwritten in blue ink on the back of the booklet are 4 signatures. Each page is numbered at the bottom center of each page. Various names and messages are handwritten in blue ink throughout the yearbook. Student portraits appear on p. 22 - the bottom left one showing Oswald. The names that correspond with each of the portraits appear on p. 23.

Curatorial Commentary

Dorothy M. Bush was Lee Harvey Oswald's ninth grade science teacher at Beauregard Junior High School. In an oral history recorded with the Museum in 2003, she described young Lee Oswald as a distracted and mediocre student. Bush remembered, "We had just started a unit studying the atom. You see, that was back in the '50s. So anyway, Oswald wanted to help... we were making a little brochure and it had a little artwork on it. And he told me, he said, 'I can do that. I want to help you.' And he kept on several times, so I finally got him the material and told him, well, he could do it. But it was very messy, so it could not be used.... I remember...he talked and had to be moved, and then he could not follow directions and do the work." - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator