/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullPeggy Carey Oral History09/17/2015Duration: 22 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2015.001.01290Audio-only oral history interview with Peggy Carey. A California high school student, Carey turned seventeen years old four days prior to the assassination. She was inspired in part by President Kennedy’s death to become an FBI stenographer.
Interview conducted on September 17, 2015 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 22 minutes long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories653470E-100E-1045018Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Carey. A California high school student, Carey celebrated her seventeenth birthday four days prior to the Kennedy assassination. She was inspired in part by President Kennedy's death to later become a stenographer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Interview conducted by telephone on September 17, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-two minutes long.Oral historiesStudentYouthFederal Bureau of InvestigationCaliforniaChildhood Recollections (OHC)Law Enforcement (OHC)As of 2023, the Museum has recorded oral history interviews with nine male FBI agents. To date, Peggy Carey is the only female employee of the FBI to record an oral history, although she was not working at the Bureau at the time of the assassination in 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator