Jim Spaniolo Oral History
Object number2025.001.0002
Date01/13/2025
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Jim Spaniolo
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 43 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Youth
- Student
- 1960s
- 1960 presidential election
- Presidential campaign
- Campaign
- Elections
- Civil rights
- Newspapers
- Social and political climate
- Dealey Plaza
- 50th anniversary
- Current events
- Speeches
- Vietnam
- Assassination
- Race relations
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- University of Texas at Arlington
- White House
- U.S. Army
- Dallas
- Michigan
- Arlington
- News Media (OHC)
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- Vietnam (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped 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.
Curatorial CommentaryPrior 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 Cataloger
President 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
