Lee O. Triggs Jr. Oral History
Object number2024.001.0005
Date01/22/2024
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Lee O. Triggs Jr.
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
Oral history interviewer
Ivy Albright
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 40 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Civil rights
- 1960s
- Racism
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Space program
- Poems
- Donation
- Television
- Conspiracy theories
- Assassination
- Race relations
- Segregation
- Integration
- Dallas
- Pasadena
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Artists (OHC)
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
Collections
- Civil Rights Movement
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Lee O. Triggs Jr. A California native, Triggs first experienced racism and prejudice during a family road trip to Memphis in the early 1960s. He later participated in a civil rights march. As a high school freshman, he wrote a poem in response to the Kennedy assassination, which he later donated to The Sixth Floor Museum.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 22, 2024 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryA segment from Lee O. Triggs Jr's interview was featured in an installment of The Sixth Floor Museum's "Voices from the Collection" YouTube series. The short video showcases his narration of his poem, "A Tribute from a Teenager," which he wrote in response to the assassination. The video can be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Voices from the Collection: Lee O. Triggs Jr. - A Tribute from a Teenager. The Museum's Lee O. Triggs Collection (2024.008) includes a photocopy of the poem. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
04/12/1968
Lee Harvey Oswald
1962 - 1964
12/03/1963 - 12/05/1963