/internal/media/dispatcher/75476/fullJerry Von Korff Oral History08/23/2022Duration: 58 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00590Videotaped oral history interview with Jerry Von Korff. A student at Oberlin College in Ohio at the time of the assassination, Von Korff became active with the NAACP, traveled to Mississippi on several occasions, and led a group of Oberlin students in the 1964 “Carpenters for Christmas” program, rebuilding a Mississippi church that had recently been bombed. He later became an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on August 23, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.
Oral Histories719330E-100E-1073397Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Jerry Von Korff. A student at Oberlin College in Ohio at the time of the assassination, Von Korff became active with the NAACP, traveled to Mississippi on several occasions, and led a group of Oberlin students in the 1964 “Carpenters for Christmas” program, rebuilding a Mississippi church that had recently been bombed. He later became an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on August 23, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.
InterviewsOral historiesProtestsStudentCivil rightsVietnamVotingSegregationDesegregationYouthRacismRace relationsReligion1960sNAACPMississippiOberlinCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)An illustrated autobiographical account of Jerry Von Korff's experiences as a civil rights activist in the 1960s may be accessed via the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement archive: Information about my experience as a Civil Rights worker in the 1960's.
More information on the 1964 "Carpenters for Christmas" program organized by Oberlin College to rebuild the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Ripley, Mississippi, may be found here on the Oberlin College Library website: Carpenters for Christmas: Civil Rights in Mississippi. - Stephen Fagin, Curator