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Peggy Norvell Turlington Oral History
Peggy Norvell Turlington Oral History

Peggy Norvell Turlington Oral History

Object number2016.001.0080
Date06/27/2016
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Oral history interviewer
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 53 Minutes
Collections
  • All Online Objects
  • Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Peggy Norvell Turlington. A longtime private school teacher, Turlington was a first grader in Dallas in 1963. Her uncle passed away on November 22, 1963, so she was not able to follow any assassination news coverage that weekend. In the early 1980s, she and several friends developed a private Dallas tour called “Conspiracy A-Go-Go,” which was later adapted into an iPhone application. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 27, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-three minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary

The Museum's John Slate Collection (1989.079) includes multiple copies of the Conspiracy A-Go-Go guidebook. Self-published by the so-called "Nerraw Commission" (Warren Commission spelled backwards), the twenty-six page tongue-in-cheek booklet includes an introduction that reads: "In a sense, we, the authors of this guide, feel that JFK has almost endorsed our endeavor to perpetuate the memory of the recent past in Dallas. These structures stand in mute testimony to the lurid misdeeds of the persons involved in the Crime of the Century - the assassinations (and cover-ups of same) of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Patrolman J.D. Tippit. Also, JFK was funny. So are we." - Stephen Fagin, Curator 

In addition to Peggy Norvell Turlington, several individuals involved in the Conspiracy A-Go-Go tour and guidebook have recorded oral histories with the Museum over the years, including Ellen Gibbs, John Slate (John H. Slate Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza) and John G. Kays (John G. Kays Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza). - Stephen Fagin, Curator