Tom Chasuk Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Tom Chasuk. A fourth grader attending Catholic school in 1963, Chasuk was deeply impacted by the assassination and has made several visits to Dallas over the years to explore Dealey Plaza and related sites. Chasuk was a Nixon campaign volunteer in 1968. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 4, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Tom Chasuk Oral History

Date:

10/04/2022

Terms:

Interviews

Oral histories

Student

Catholicism

Dealey Plaza

1960 presidential election

Presidential campaign

Campaign

1968 presidential election

Nixon, Richard M.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kennedy, John F.

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

1960 Campaign (OHC)

History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 50 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2022.001.0074

Curatorial Note:

A few months prior to this interview with Tom Chasuk, I had the great pleasure of recording an oral history with his mother, Dolores. In 2022, Tom and Dolores generously made multiple donations to The Sixth Floor Museum, including a variety of assassination-related newspapers and publications, 1960 and 1968 campaign materials, a rare set of 1945 postcards from Dallas, a short 1960 home movie showing young Tom in a Kennedy-inspired Halloween costume and a series of 1965 and 1972 amateur photographs of Dealey Plaza and Arlington National Cemetery taken by Tom's late father, Alfred Chasuk. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator