"Deep South Dispatch" Program

Object number2019.001.0121

Date10/04/2019

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Anne Farris Rosen

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.mov file)

DimensionsDuration: 45 Minutes

Collections

DescriptionVideotaped public program entitled "Deep South Dispatch" with Anne Farris Rosen, a freelance journalist and journalism professor at the University of Maryland. Rosen discussed the career of her late father, New York Times reporter John Herbers, who extensively covered the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Kennedy assassination. Rosen collaborated with her father on his autobiography, "Deep South Dispatch" (2018). Public program recorded at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey plaza on October 4, 2019. The program is forty-five minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Anne Farris Rosen's late father, journalist John Herbers, recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2014. He passed away in 2017. Immediately prior to this public program, Rosen also recorded an oral history. Four months after this Museum program, Ms. Rosen gave a similar lecture at the Library of Congress on February 5, 2020. That program may be viewed here: Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist.

John Herbers' memoir, Deep South Dispatch (2018), may be found here in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for Deep South dispatch. - Stephen Fagin, Curator