{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"72399"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Doy Gorton. A former New York Times photographer, Gorton grew up in the Mississippi Delta and was an activist with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and Southern Student Organizing Committee. He was present at several historic events of the 1960s, including the 1962 riots during the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi, the 1963 March on Washington, \"Bloody Sunday\" in Selma, the 1965 March Against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. and the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted over Zoom on July 27, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 31 minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2021.001.0062"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Doy Gorton. A former New York Times photographer, Gorton grew up in the Mississippi Delta and was an activist with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and Southern Student Organizing Committee. He was present at several historic events of the 1960s, including the 1962 riots during the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi, the 1963 March on Washington, the violence of \"Bloody Sunday\" in Selma, the 1965 March Against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. and the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted over Zoom on July 27, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 31 minutes long.\r\n\r\nTechnical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file, an isolated Zoom combined audio track, and HD video reference of Stephen Fagin in 501 Elm board room. \r\n\r\nThe video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/70881/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"70881"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Doy Gorton Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/70881/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Civil rights","Oral histories","Photographer","March on Washington","Vietnam","Assassination","Meredith, James","Kennedy, Robert F.","Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)","Dallas","Washington, D.C.","Selma","Los Angeles","Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)","News Media (OHC)","Vietnam (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"07/27/2021"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Doy Gorton's remarkable career was profiled in a New York Times story, \"Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s\" by James Estrin, on September 13, 2018. The article, which features a number of Gorton's black and white photographs, may be viewed in full here: Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s - The New York Times (nytimes.com). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65790"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 91 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}