Dr. Ignacio M. Garcia Oral History
Object number2021.001.0043
Date06/09/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Dr. Ignacio M. Garcia
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
DimensionsDuration: 84 Minutes
Terms
- Civil rights
- Oral histories
- Presidential campaign
- 1960s
- 1960 presidential election
- Author
- Vietnam
- Doctors
- Mexico
- U.S. Army
- Viva Kennedy
- San Antonio
- Mexico
- Salt Lake City
- 1960 Campaign (OHC)
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Vietnam (OHC)
- Chicano History and Culture (OHC)
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. Ignacio M. Garcia. A native of Mexico who grew up in San Antonio, Garcia was a U.S. Army combat medic and served in the Vietnam War. As a professor of history at Brigham Young University, he has written several books on Mexican American politics and history, including Viva Kennedy: Mexican Americans in Search of Camelot (2000).
Interview conducted via Zoom on June 9, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-four minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryTwo 1960 campaign buttons in the Museum's collection associated with Viva Kennedy Clubs may be seen here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/35152
and https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/35797. In addition to Dr. Garcia, the Museum also recorded a 2021 oral history with Dr. Jorge Leal at the University of California, Riverside, about his 2011 master's thesis on Viva Kennedy Clubs in southern California. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
