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Scott Garbe Living History Program
Scott Garbe Living History Program

Scott Garbe Living History Program

Object number2015.001.0138
Date10/17/2015
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Oral history interviewer
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.mov file)
DimensionsDuration: 46 Minutes
Collections
  • All Online Objects
  • Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped Living History public program with Scott Garbe. A songwriter and drama teacher in Toronto, Canada, Garbe has had a lifelong interest in the Kennedy assassination. After visiting Dealey Plaza for the first time in 1993, he wrote a series of songs about the tragedy, which was produced with the Cowboy Junkies as a concept album, "The Kennedy Suite" (2013). Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 17, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-six minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
The Museum's Scott Garbe Collection (2013.089) includes two producer's scrapbooks related to the creation of The Kennedy Suite (2013). - Stephen Fagin, Curator 

Prior to this Living History public program, Scott Garbe recorded a one-on-one oral history with the Museum on June 24, 2014. That hour-long interview may be accessed here: Scott Garbe Oral History – Works – Oral History Collection – Collections – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

Scott also participated in an educational Living History virtual program, recorded as part of the Oral History Project in 2015. A segment from that program was featured in a 2024 YouTube compilation of Kennedy assassination songs: Voices from the Collection: Kennedy Assassination Songs. - Stephen Fagin, Curator