/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullMark Brookshire Oral History01/22/2021Duration: 28 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2021.001.00040Audiotaped oral history interview with Mark Brookshire. A Dallas writer and poet, Brookshire was five years old in 1963. At the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination, he responded to the tragedy from a local perspective in his poem, "A Crime Revisited."
Interview conducted over the phone on January 22, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 28 minutes long.Oral Histories657840E-100E-1070688Oral history0E-10Audio 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.Oral historiesAuthorChildhoodPoemsAnniversaryDallasAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Artists (OHC)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