Jacob Carter Oral History

Object number2016.001.0052

Date04/08/2016

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Jacob Carter

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 57 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Jacob Carter. Born more than twenty-five years after the assassination, Carter became interested in the subject after watching Oliver Stone’s "JFK" (1991). He has since become an assassination researcher, focused on engaging younger people in the story. He is the author of "Before History Dies" (2015). Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 8, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

As discussed during this oral history, Jacob Carter's book, Before History Dies (2015), notably collects interviews with a wide variety of Kennedy assassination researchers, representing both sides of the ongoing debate over Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman versus a conspiracy. Intended as a primer for younger people born long after the Kennedy assassination, it includes interviews with several authors and researchers who have also recorded oral histories with The Sixth Floor Museum over the years: Max Holland, John McAdams, Jefferson Morley, Dale Myers, Gerald Posner, David Talbot and Parkland Hospital physician Dr. Robert N. McClelland.

Subsequent to this 2016 oral history, Carter published a follow-up book, The Table of Truth: An Autopsy of the JFK Research Community (2018). Both books are in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Catalog Search Results. - Stephen Fagin, Curator