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 Commentary

This 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