/internal/media/dispatcher/76310/fullRon Ridenour Oral History03/03/2023Duration: 87 MinutesBorn digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file), Born digital (.m4a file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2023.001.00200Videotaped oral history interview with Ron Ridenour. While attending college in the early 1960s, Ridenour joined the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, protested the Bay of Pigs invasion, and was arrested during the Cuban Missile Crisis while trying to travel to Cuba. He was later a civil rights worker in Mississippi and became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Interview conducted via Zoom on March 3, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-seven minutes long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file (.MP4), a Zoom gallery view file (.MP4), a Zoom subtitles file (.VTT), and an isolated Zoom audio track (.MP4A).Oral Histories729530E-100E-1073643Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Ron Ridenour. While attending college in the early 1960s, Ridenour joined the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, protested the Bay of Pigs invasion, and was arrested during the Cuban Missile Crisis while trying to travel to Cuba. He was later a civil rights worker in Mississippi and became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Interview conducted via Zoom on March 3, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-seven minutes long.Civil rightsOral historiesVietnamRace relationsSegregationIntegrationRacism1960sCuban Missile CrisisBay of PigsProtestsCommunismSocial and political climateU.S. presidentsConspiracy theoriesLiteratureMalcolm XCastro, FidelJohnson, Lyndon B.Fair Play for Cuba CommitteeStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)Black Panther PartyCommunist PartyDallasCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Cuba (OHC)Cold War and Communism (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)Ron Ridenour's website includes an archive of poems, short stories, articles and more information on his career as a writer, journalist and activist for peace, equality, and justice. It may be found here: Ron Ridenour: About Ron Ridenour. - Stephen Fagin, Curator This oral history with Ron Ridenour is one of eleven recordings that the Museum was pleased to provide to the Vimeo channel of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Archive. The Sixth Floor Museum showcase may be accessed here: Civil Rights Movement Archive video channel: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Oral History Collection. - Stephen Fagin, Curator A mugshot of Ron Ridenour, taken following his arrest on June 24, 1964 in Mississippi, may be seen on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website here: Digital Archives - Mississippi Department of Archives and History. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger