Dr. Benjamin Taylor Oral History

Object number2018.001.0087

Date08/10/2018

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Benjamin Taylor

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.wav file)

DimensionsDuration: 43 Minutes

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DescriptionAudio oral history interview with Dr. Benjamin Taylor. Taylor is an award-winning writer and faculty member at The New School in New York City. A Fort Worth native, he shook hands with President Kennedy outside the Hotel Texas on the morning of November 22, 1963. He wrote about this experience in his memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House (2017). Interview conducted via telephone on August 10, 2018 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-two minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Taylor's memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House, won the 2017 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography and was also named a New York Times Editors' Choice. - Stephen Fagin, Curator