Karen Ertl Oral History
Object number2020.001.0020
Date07/09/2020
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Karen Ertl
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.wav file)
DimensionsDuration: 31 Minutes
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DescriptionAudio oral history interview with Karen Ertl. Ertl was a seventh grader at St. Augustine Grammar School in Chicago in 1963. Inspired in part by President Kennedy, she became politically and social active and worked twenty-seven years in the civil service.
Interview conducted by phone on July 9, 2020 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-one minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThis telephone oral history was recorded in the middle of a sixth-month closure of The Sixth Floor Museum due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. After discontinuing videotaped interviews in early March, audio-only telephone interviews resumed in July. Karen Ertl was the second of fifteen phone interviews recorded during the second half of 2020. - Stephen Fagin, Curator