/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullRichard Benedetto Oral History10/26/2018Duration: 50 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2018.001.01250Audiotaped oral history interview with Richard Benedetto. As a founding staff member of USA Today, Benedetto covered the White House as a political reporter from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. He was attending Syracuse University in New York at the time of the assassination.
Interview conducted on October 26, 2018 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 50 minutes long.
The audio attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories657380E-100E-1059325Oral history0E-10Audio oral history interview with Richard Benedetto. As a founding staff member of USA Today, Benedetto covered the White House as a political reporter during the Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush administrations. He was attending Syracuse University in New York at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963.
Interview conducted by telephone on October 26, 2018 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.Oral historiesPressReporterReagan, RonaldBush, George W.Clinton, BillBush, George H. W.USA TodayWhite HouseNew YorkWashington, D.C.News Media (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Over the last twenty-plus years, I have met potential oral history subjects in a wide variety of places, though my initial encounter with Richard Benedetto was perhaps the most memorable of all because it happened to occur in the East Room of the White House. The two of us were attending the Presidential Sites Summit in Washington, D.C. in 2018. During a reception at the White House, I was very pleased to meet Mr. Benedetto after hearing him speak on a panel about covering multiple presidents for USA Today, and we recorded this interview shortly thereafter. I met another potential subject that evening in the East Room - pioneering journalist Cokie Roberts - and had hoped to eventually bring her to Dallas for a video oral history and Museum public program. Sadly, Ms. Roberts passed away the following year, and we never had the chance to record an interview. - Stephen Fagin, Curator