Michael Coston Oral History
Object number2020.001.0012
Date02/14/2020
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Michael Coston
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 40 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Zapruder film
- Student
- Trade Mart luncheon
- Photographer
- Childhood
- Memories
- Dealey Plaza
- Eyewitnesses
- The Dallas Morning News
- Dallas Trade Mart
- Parkland Hospital
- Dallas
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Abraham Zapruder Film (OHC)
- Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)
- News Media (OHC)
- Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
- Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses (OHC)
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Michael Coston. Coston was a student at Jesuit High School in Dallas in 1963. His late mother volunteered at the Dallas Trade Mart luncheon while his older brother, the late Dallas Morning News photographer Fred Coston, heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza and went to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Michael Coston vividly remembers seeing a copy of the Zapruder film, obtained by his brother, on Sunday, November 24, 1963.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 14, 2020 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryIn addition to Michael Coston, the Museum has interviewed several other students from Jesuit High School in Dallas over the years, including Art Brender (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/73535), Miles Goodwin, Darwin Hutchison, Patrick Lindley, Greg McCone, Jerry Ryan and Wes Stewart. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
