George Sickler Oral History

Object number2016.001.0057

Date04/29/2016

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject George Sickler

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 47 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with George Sickler. A senior yearbook photographer for Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas, Sickler obtained last-minute press credentials for November 22, 1963. He took several photographs of the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 29, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In addition to Mr. Sickler, the Museum has recorded a number of oral histories with former students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas. Other Jefferson alumni in the Oral History Collection include Alan Abrams, Judy Bergstrom, John Carpenter, Betty Duke-Ruhd, Janet Fordham, Richard Gump, Betty Jarrell, Don McDonald, Jerry Patton, David Ritz, Carolyn Roderick, Jan Sittel, William Ward Warren and 1960s schoolteacher Katherine Clayton. A 2019 educational program featuring Jefferson High School classmates Jan Sittel and Betty Duke-Ruhd may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator