Dale Sherman Oral History
Object number2024.001.0055
Date08/12/2024
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Dale Sherman
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file), Born digital (.m4a file)
DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Author
- Pop Culture
- Researchers
- Social and political climate
- Presidency
- U.S. presidents
- PT-109
- Films
- Movie
- Press
- Television
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Conspiracy theories
- Education
- "Executive Action"
- Literature
- 1960s
- Stone, Oliver
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kennedy, Jacqueline
- Walker, Major General Edwin A.
- Kentucky
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Popular Culture (OHC)
- Non-Rememberers (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Pop Culture
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dale Sherman. A biographer and pop culture historian, Sherman is author of "Four Scores and Seven Reels Ago: The U.S. Presidency through Hollywood Films" (2022).
Interview conducted via Zoom on August 12, 2024 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThe cover of Dale Sherman's 2022 book, Four Score and Seven Reels Ago: The U.S. Presidency through Hollywood Films, features an image of actor Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy in the New Line Cinema film, Thirteen Days (2000). The movie can be found in the Museum's Library Collection here: Bibliovation | Details for Thirteen days. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Dale Sherman has written more than twenty books on pop culture topics such as film, music, television, and icons. Examples of his work include Quentin Tarantino FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Original Reservoir Dog (2015) and The Worst We Can Find: MST3K, RiffTrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies (2023). - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
