/internal/media/dispatcher/73899/fullCynthia Sharp Oral History09/24/2019Duration: 17 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2019.001.01160Videotaped oral history interview with Cynthia Sharp. As a fifth grader in California in 1963, Sharp and her classmates did a cultural study of Russia, which proved controversial among some parents. She later became a social rights activist and protested the Vietnam War.
Interview conducted at Las Colinas County Club in Las Colinas, TX on September 24, 2019 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 17 minutes long.
The video 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 Histories660990E-100E-1066749Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Cynthia Sharp. As a fifth grader in California in 1963, Sharp and her classmates did a cultural study of Russia, which proved controversial among some parents. She later became a social rights activist and protested the Vietnam War.
Interview conducted at the Las Colinas Country Club in Irving, Texas on September 24, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is seventeen minutes long.Oral historiesVietnamRussiaChildhoodCaliforniaDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Cynthia Sharp was one of five members of the Irving Women's Network who agreed to record an oral history during an outreach visit to the Las Colinas Country Club in 2019. If you are interested in scheduling an oral history outreach visit for your organization or retirement community in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. - Stephen Fagin, Curator