Kaye Northcott Oral History
Object number2025.001.0029
Date04/11/2025
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Kaye Northcott
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: 46 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- 1960 presidential election
- Presidential campaign
- Elections
- 1960s
- Reporter
- Newspapers
- Student
- Press
- TV coverage
- Editorial
- Zapruder film
- Conspiracy theories
- Integration
- Civil rights
- Race relations
- Protests
- Vietnam
- Presidency
- Women's rights
- Oswald, Lee Harvey
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Whitman, Charles
- Eddowes, Michael H. B.
- The Daily Texan
- Dallas Police Headquarters
- University of Texas
- University of Alabama
- Texas Observer
- Kansas City
- Houston
- Selma
- Austin
- Dallas
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- News Media (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Kaye Northcott. As a student journalist with the Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin, Northcott covered the Civil Rights Movement, including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. On the night of the Kennedy assassination, she covered the scene at Dallas police headquarters. Northcott was later co-editor of the Texas Observer from 1968 to 1976.
Interview conducted via Zoom on April 11, 2025 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-six minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryKaye Northcott's remarkable career as a journalist has been outlined in a trio of articles found on the Texas Observer website: Kaye Northcott - The Texas Observer. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
The Museum's Collection includes many photographs taken inside Dallas police headquarters, November 22-25, 1963. These photographs illustrate the chaotic environment discussed and witnessed by Kaye Northcott. Many of these images can be found via the Museum's online collections database: Results – Advanced Search Objects – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
Kaye Northcott has had a distinguished career in Texas journalism since the 1960s. At the Texas Observer, where she was hired in 1967, she rose to associate editor and then served as editor from 1970 to 1976. In 1986, she joined the staff of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, initially as a political reporter before becoming an editor. In addition, she was editor for seven years at Texas Co-op Power magazine. Northcott, a former president of the Texas Institute of Letters, received the George W. Haggard Memorial Journalism Award from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in 2007. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
