/internal/media/dispatcher/77901/fullJim Spaniolo Oral History01/13/2025Duration: 43 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2025.001.00020Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Spaniolo. President of the University of Texas at Arlington from 2004 to 2013, Spaniolo was a Michigan high school student in 1963. As a student journalist in the 1960s, he met President Lyndon Johnson and wrote extensively on civil rights and the Vietnam War.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 13, 2025 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-three minutes long.
Oral Histories733810E-100E-1074530Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Spaniolo. President of the University of Texas at Arlington from 2004 to 2013, Spaniolo was a Michigan high school student in 1963. As a student journalist in the 1960s, he met President Lyndon Johnson and wrote extensively on civil rights and the Vietnam War.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 13, 2025 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-three minutes long.
Oral historiesYouthStudent1960s1960 presidential electionPresidential campaignCampaignElectionsCivil rightsNewspapersSocial and political climateDealey Plaza50th anniversaryCurrent eventsSpeechesVietnamAssassinationRace relationsJohnson, Lyndon B.Kennedy, Robert F.King, Martin Luther, Jr.University of Texas at ArlingtonWhite HouseU.S. ArmyDallasMichiganArlingtonNews Media (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)Prior to serving as president of the University of Texas at Arlington from 2004 to 2013, Spaniolo was dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University from 1996 to 2004. He was also a successful attorney specializing in communications and constitutional law, serving as counsel to the Miami Herald and the American Newspaper Publishers Association. - Stephen Fagin, Curator The James D. Spaniolo Papers (2024) are housed in the University of Texas at Arlington special collections. The Collection includes personal papers, artifacts and memorabilia collected between 1960 to 2022. The Collection is open for research and can be accessed on the University of Arlington's Library website: Collection: James D. Spaniolo Papers | UTA Special Collections | ArchivesSpace Public Interface. - Riley Harris, Collections CatalogerPresident John F. Kennedy's televised address on civil rights, broadcast in June 1963, may be watched via the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's website: Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights | JFK Library. A transcript of the speech is available on the website in thirteen different languages. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger