Tom Chasuk Oral History
Object number2022.001.0074
Date10/04/2022
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Tom Chasuk
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 50 Minutes
Terms
- Interviews
- Oral histories
- Student
- Catholicism
- Dealey Plaza
- 1960 presidential election
- Presidential campaign
- Campaign
- 1968 presidential election
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- Kennedy, John F.
- Texas School Book Depository
- Dallas
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- 1960 Campaign (OHC)
- History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Tom Chasuk. A fourth grader attending Catholic school in 1963, Chasuk was deeply impacted by the assassination and has made several visits to Dallas over the years to explore Dealey Plaza and related sites. Chasuk was a Nixon campaign volunteer in 1968.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 4, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryA few months prior to this interview with Tom Chasuk, I had the great pleasure of recording an oral history with his mother, Dolores. In 2022, Tom and Dolores generously made multiple donations to The Sixth Floor Museum, including a variety of assassination-related newspapers and publications, 1960 and 1968 campaign materials, a rare set of 1945 postcards from Dallas, a short 1960 home movie showing young Tom in a Kennedy-inspired Halloween costume and a series of 1965 and 1972 amateur photographs of Dealey Plaza and Arlington National Cemetery taken by Tom's late father, Alfred Chasuk. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
