Carl Sutherland Oral History
Object number2023.001.0024
Date04/10/2023
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Carl Sutherland
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 62 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Carl Sutherland. At age six, Sutherland saw the Kennedy motorcade at the corner of Lemmon Avenue and Turtle Creek Boulevard. His late father, Dr. Dan Sutherland, was a longtime conservative activist in Dallas and friends with Congressman Bruce Alger and Major General Edwin Walker. Dr. Sutherland, who protested during Adlai Stevenson’s visit to the city in October 1963, was also involved with the anti-Kennedy advertisement that appeared in The Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 10, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and two minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThe individual who contributed a few questions in the background of this oral history was Paul Amundsen, a childhood friend who accompanied Carl Sutherland to the Museum for his oral history. In fact, Paul Amundsen had recorded his own oral history with the Museum twenty-five years earlier in 1998. That interview may be viewed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/17169. Immediately following Mr. Sutherland's 2023 interview, I had the great pleasure of recording a new oral history with Paul. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
