Mark Brookshire Oral History

Object number2021.001.0004

Date01/22/2021

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Mark Brookshire

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.wav file)

DimensionsDuration: 28 Minutes

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DescriptionAudio oral history interview with Mark Brookshire. A Dallas writer and poet, Brookshire was five years old in 1963. At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the assassination in 1988, he responded to the tragedy from a local perspective by writing a poem entitled "A Crime Revisited." Interview conducted by telephone on January 22, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-eight minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In 1989, the year The Sixth Floor exhibit opened to the public, Mark Brookshire became one of our earliest donors, gifting a copy of his then-new poem, "A Crime Revisited" (1989.125.0001). That copy was exhibited on the Museum's seventh floor as part of a showcase of personal responses to the assassination in support of the traveling art exhibit, True Colors, which ran from February to June 2005 at The Sixth Floor Museum. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator