{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"65996"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Audio oral history interview with Fred Anklam Jr. A third grader in West Point, New York, in 1963, Anklam was inspired in part by the Kennedy assassination to pursue a career in journalism. He toured the Texas School Book Depository building while covering the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas for Gannett News Service. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted by telephone on August 14, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-two minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2019.001.0097"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Audio oral history interview with Fred Anklam Jr. A third grader in West Point, New York, in 1963, Anklam was inspired in part by the Kennedy assassination to pursue a career in journalism. He toured the Texas School Book Depository building while covering the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas for Gannett News Service. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted by telephone on August 14, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-two minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.wav file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"73403"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75744/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Audio","mediaId":"75744"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Fred Anklam Jr. Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Childhood","Press","Kennedy, John F.","Reagan, Ronald","Adams, Lindalyn","The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza","Texas School Book Depository","Republican Party","West Point","Dallas","Republican National Convention","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","News Media (OHC)","History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"08/14/2019"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["For the team developing The Sixth Floor exhibit, the 1984 Republican National Convention was seen as a major opportunity to generate national interest in and spur fundraising for the project. The convention was held at the Dallas Convention Center just a few blocks from Dealey Plaza, and a Kennedy assassination bus tour was one of the local activities promoted for convention delegates and members of the news media (though it was outsold five to one by a tour of Southfork Ranch where the then-popular television series Dallas was partially filmed). \r\n\r\nUnfortunately, the Texas School Book Depository made national news during the Republican National Convention for all the wrong reasons. On the morning of the last day of the convention, an arson attempt on the building brought one hundred firefighters from twenty-three companies to battle the five-alarm blaze. While the building thankfully survived, damage to the basement and the first two floors caused approximately $250,000 worth of damage (nearly $3 million, adjusted for inflation in 2025). Perhaps more significantly, the Texas School Book Depository once again proved to be a source of embarrassment for a city only twenty years removed from the tragedy of 1963. News stories about the arson attempt ran nationwide, with The Washington Post noting that \"it was as if fate, or something, conspired in the end to keep Dallas from escaping its long association with Kennedy's murder.\" - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"72168"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 42 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}