Lawrence Wright Oral History

Object number2016.001.0058

Date04/30/2016

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Lawrence Wright

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.mov file)

DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Lawrence Wright. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Wright is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006). He was a student at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas at the time of the assassination and later wrote about his experiences in the autobiographical book, In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties (1987). Interview conducted at the Dallas Public Library on April 30, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

This oral history was recorded at the downtown Dallas Public Library during the 2016 Dallas Book Festival. Lawrence Wright was a keynote speaker at the festival in a program co-sponsored by The Sixth Floor Museum. That public program, moderated by Dallas Morning News journalist Chris Vognar, was also recorded as part of the Oral History Project and may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: Dallas Book Festival: A Conversation with Lawrence Wright - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator