/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullKaren Ertl Oral History07/09/2020Duration: 31 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2020.001.00200Audio 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.Oral Histories657760E-100E-1069388Oral history0E-10Audio 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.Oral historiesChildhoodStudentYouthSocial and political climateKennedy, John F.ChicagoChildhood Recollections (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)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