Pastor G. James Christopher Oral History
Object number2019.001.0045
Date04/19/2019
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Pastor G. James Christopher
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 35 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Civil rights
- Religion
- Community leaders
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
- County Commissioners Court
- Dallas County Historical Foundation
- Dallas
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Pastor G. James Christopher. A young civil rights activist in the 1960s, Christopher was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As pastor of the St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Dallas, he provided the invocation at the opening of The Sixth Floor exhibit on February 20, 1989.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 19, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-five minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryAs discussed during this interview, a line from Pastor Christopher's invocation at the opening of The Sixth Floor exhibit -- "Today we stand whole again" -- was used as the front-page headline for the Dallas Times Herald on February 20, 1989. That front page may be found as part of the Museum's Dealey Plaza Interactive Guide (Dealey Plaza Interactive Guide (jfk.org)). Specifically, an image of the newspaper's front page is seen on the thirteenth slide in the "Facing Tragedy" visual story. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
