Talmage Boston Oral History
Object number2024.001.0037
Date06/10/2024
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Talmage Boston
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 31 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- 1960s
- 1960 presidential election
- Youth
- Television
- TV coverage
- Funeral
- Trip to Texas
- Presidential trip
- U.S. presidents
- Presidential succession
- Presidential campaign
- Presidential elections
- Space program
- Space Race
- Assassination
- Conspiracy theories
- Researchers
- Social and political climate
- Foreign policy
- Domestic policy
- Economy
- Civil rights
- Racism
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Nuclear threat
- Legacy
- Dealey Plaza
- Kennedy, John F.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Johnson, Lady Bird
- Truman, Harry S.
- Obama, Barack
- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
- White House Historical Association
- Warren Commission
- Dallas
- Houston
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Talmage Boston. A longtime Dallas attorney and historian, Boston is the author of several books, including "How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from our Top Presidents" (2024). He was a ten-year-old living in Houston at the time of the Kennedy assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 10, 2024 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-one minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryA month prior to this oral history recording, Talmage Boston participated in a public program at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, based on his 2024 book, How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents. That program may be viewed here: "How the Best Did It" with Talmage Boston - YouTube. In addition, Mr. Boston returned to the Museum just four days after this oral history to moderate a public program with Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Talmage Boston is a contributing columnist for The Dallas Morning News, writing primarily about American history and the presidency. A list of his contributions to the paper can be found on The Dallas Morning News website here: Talmage Boston, Contributing Columnist - Dallas News. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
The two significant Kennedy recordings mentioned in this interview may be viewed on the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation's YouTube channel. President Kennedy's speech on the U.S. space program at Rice University in 1962 can be seen here: Address at Rice University, September 12, 1962 (USG 15 29). His televised address on civil rights in 1963 is found here: John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
John F. Kennedy Memorial Corporation
circa 1970
