Miriam Cohen Oral History
Object number2024.001.0069
Date09/16/2024
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Miriam Cohen
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 25 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- 1960s
- 1960 presidential election
- Voting
- Kennedy supporter
- Democrats
- Social and political climate
- Fashion
- Downtown Dallas
- Nuclear threat
- Motorcade
- Lemmon Avenue
- Assassination
- Television
- TV coverage
- Olan, Rabbi Levi A.
- Zapruder Family
- Ruby, Jack
- Temple Emanu-El
- Neiman Marcus
- Dallas
- Ohio
- Houston
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Motorcade Spectators (OHC)
- Abraham Zapruder Film (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Miriam Cohen. Cohen moved to Dallas as a newlywed in 1960 and voted for John F. Kennedy in her first election. She observed the presidential motorcade on Lemmon Avenue on the day of the assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 16, 2024 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-five minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThis interview is a great example of the power of oral history outreach in the community. After Miriam Cohen's friend heard me give a presentation about the Museum's Oral History Project at the Richardson Senior Center in Richardson, Texas, she suggested that Ms. Cohen contact me about her memories of the Kennedy motorcade. Ms. Cohen volunteered for an interview, which we recorded on September 16, 2024. After this interview, Ms. Cohen in turn suggested that I give my oral history outreach presentation at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas. A few months later, my visit to Temple Emanu-El on January 16, 2025, yielded six more oral history interviews. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
The Museum's Collection includes several oral history interviews with individuals who, like Miriam Cohen, observed the Kennedy motorcade from Lemmon Ave. A selection of these interviews, as well asphotographs, may be found in the Museum's online collections database: Results – Advanced Search Objects – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
An interactive map of the Presidential motorcade route through Dallas on November 22, 1963, can be viewed on the Museum's website here: Interactive Motorcade Map | The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
