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Jim Lehrer Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Lehrer. An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, best known for the long-running PBS NewsHour program and for moderating twelve presidential debates (1988-2012), Lehrer was a reporter with the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. Assigned to Dallas Love Field, he witnessed the Secret Service remove the bubbletop from the presidential limousine shortly before the Dallas motorcade. Following the assassination, he covered Dallas police headquarters. A prolific novelist later in life, Lehrer authored Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination (2013).Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 1, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and five minutes long.
Jim Lehrer Oral History
11/01/2013
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 65 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2013.001.0131
Upon Jim Lehrer's passing at age 85 on January 23, 2020, the Museum featured this oral history in a short tribute video produced for our YouTube channel: In Memory of Jim Lehrer - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Jim Lehrer Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Lehrer. An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, best known for the long-running PBS NewsHour program and for moderating twelve presidential debates (1988-2012), Lehrer was a reporter with the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. Assigned to Dallas Love Field, he witnessed the Secret Service remove the bubbletop from the presidential limousine shortly before the Dallas motorcade. Following the assassination, he covered Dallas police headquarters. A prolific novelist later in life, Lehrer authored Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination (2013).Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 1, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and five minutes long.
Jim Lehrer Oral History
11/01/2013
Oral histories
Reporter
Press
Lehrer, Jim
Dallas Times Herald
Love Field
Dallas Police Headquarters
Dallas Municipal Building
Dallas
News Media (OHC)
Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
Love Field Airport (OHC)
Law Enforcement (OHC)
Artists (OHC)
Popular Culture (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 65 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2013.001.0131
Upon Jim Lehrer's passing at age 85 on January 23, 2020, the Museum featured this oral history in a short tribute video produced for our YouTube channel: In Memory of Jim Lehrer - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator