Gregg Hart Oral History
Object number2021.001.0081
Date09/08/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Gregg Hart
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: 60 Minutes
Terms
- Interviews
- Oral histories
- Student
- Childhood
- Space program
- Assassination
- Youth
- 1960 presidential election
- Inauguration
- Nuclear threat
- 1960s
- Space program
- Dealey Plaza
- Kennedy, John F.
- Texas School Book Depository
- Dallas
- Plymouth
- Arlington
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Space Program (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Gregg Hart. A second grader in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Hart recalls that his substitute teacher on November 22, 1963, was from Dallas and did not show any emotion while announcing President Kennedy’s death. Hart, who grew up with an avid interest in the Space Program, first visited Dealey Plaza in the late 1970s.
Interview conducted via Zoom on September 8, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour long.
