/internal/media/dispatcher/74294/fullMichael Coston Oral History02/14/2020Duration: 40 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2020.001.00120Videotaped 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 Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 40 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 Histories657740E-100E-1069352Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.Oral historiesZapruder filmStudentTrade Mart luncheonPhotographerChildhoodMemoriesDealey PlazaEyewitnessesThe Dallas Morning NewsDallas Trade MartParkland HospitalDallasChildhood Recollections (OHC)Abraham Zapruder Film (OHC)Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)News Media (OHC)Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses (OHC)In 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, CuratorMr. Coston passed away on May 16, 2022. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger