/internal/media/dispatcher/73990/fullJohn G. Kays Oral History04/18/2023Duration: 78 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2023.001.00290As an elementary school student in Houston, Kays attended President Kennedy’s historic speech about the U.S. space program at Rice University on September 12, 1962. He later developed a research interest in the Kennedy assassination and was the primary organizer of a private Dallas tour and guidebook, Conspiracy A-Go-Go, in 1988.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey plaza in Dallas, TX by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eighteen minutes long.Oral Histories658240E-100E-1073670Oral history0E-10As an elementary school student in Houston, Kays attended President Kennedy’s historic speech about the U.S. space program at Rice University on September 12, 1962. He later developed a research interest in the Kennedy assassination and was the primary organizer of a private Dallas tour and guidebook, Conspiracy A-Go-Go, in 1988.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eighteen minutes long.InterviewsOral historiesSpace programTourismConspiracy theoriesTourismSlate, JohnDallasDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Space Program (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)In addition to John G. Kays, several individuals involved in the Conspiracy A-Go-Go Dallas tour and guidebook have recorded oral histories with the Museum over the years, including artist Ellen Gibbs, Peggy Norvell Turlington and Dallas city archivist John H. Slate. - Stephen Fagin, Curator The Museum's John Slate Collection (1989.079) includes multiple copies of the Conspiracy A-Go-Go guidebook. Self-published by the so-called "Nerraw Commission" (Warren Commission spelled backwards), the twenty-six page tongue-in-cheek booklet includes an introduction that reads: "In a sense, we, the authors of this guide, feel that JFK has almost endorsed our endeavor to perpetuate the memory of the recent past in Dallas. These structures stand in mute testimony to the lurid misdeeds of the persons involved in the Crime of the Century - the assassinations (and cover-ups of same) of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Patrolman J.D. Tippit. Also, JFK was funny. So are we." - Stephen Fagin, Curator