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Avelino Segura Oral History
Avelino Segura Oral History

Avelino Segura Oral History

Object number2024.001.0017
Date03/05/2024
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Oral history interviewer
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 44 Minutes
Collections
  • All Online Objects
  • Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Avelino Segura. A native of Cuba, Segura and his mother fled Havana after the Bay of Pigs invasion and settled in Dallas in the summer of 1962. Segura had a paper route with the Dallas Times Herald in 1963 and recalls that the FBI interviewed his mother shortly after the assassination. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 5, 2024 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Avelino has had a long and distinguished career in the Dallas community. He was the Exhibits Director at the Dallas Museum of Natural History; CEO of the Dallas Historical Society; a faculty member at Dallas College's Garland Center; and as of late 2025 is a Spanish teacher at Emmett J. Conrad High School in Dallas. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
Avelino Segura's spouse, Judith Garrett Segura, is an author and corporate historian who spent twenty-four years at The Dallas Morning News. During that time, she was a company liaison to The Sixth Floor exhibit during its long development. Segura, who was a college student at the time of the assassination, is the author of Belo: From Newspapers to New Media (2008), which may be found here in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for Belo. Judith Segura recorded her own oral history on the same day as her husband, March 5, 2024. - Stephen Fagin, Curator