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Steve Blow Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Steve Blow. A sixth grader in Tyler, Texas in 1963, Blow joined The Dallas Morning News in 1978 and wrote an award-winning column from 1989 to 2015. In addition to writing assassination anniversary stories in 1983 and 1988, one of his earliest columns detailed the opening of The Sixth Floor exhibit in 1989. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 25, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Steve Blow Oral History

Date:

08/25/2015

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 44 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2015.001.0126

Curatorial Note:

Steve Blow's final column for The Dallas Morning News was published on September 6, 2015, less than two weeks after this oral history was recorded. More than twenty-five years earlier, in a column entitled "Sixth Floor Opens, and a Circle Closes," published in The Dallas Morning News on February 17, 1989, Steve Blow wrote about his first tour through the soon-to-open Sixth Floor exhibit: "My tour became a personal experience, not a professional one.... Tears welled in my eyes at several points, and I chewed on the cap of my pen. It's not professional to cry on assignment." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Steve Blow Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Steve Blow. A sixth grader in Tyler, Texas in 1963, Blow joined The Dallas Morning News in 1978 and wrote an award-winning column from 1989 to 2015. In addition to writing assassination anniversary stories in 1983 and 1988, one of his earliest columns detailed the opening of The Sixth Floor exhibit in 1989. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 25, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Steve Blow Oral History

Date:

08/25/2015

Terms:

Oral histories

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

Reporter

Anniversary

Student

Youth

The Dallas Morning News

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Dallas

Tyler

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

News Media (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 44 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2015.001.0126

Curatorial Note:

Steve Blow's final column for The Dallas Morning News was published on September 6, 2015, less than two weeks after this oral history was recorded. More than twenty-five years earlier, in a column entitled "Sixth Floor Opens, and a Circle Closes," published in The Dallas Morning News on February 17, 1989, Steve Blow wrote about his first tour through the soon-to-open Sixth Floor exhibit: "My tour became a personal experience, not a professional one.... Tears welled in my eyes at several points, and I chewed on the cap of my pen. It's not professional to cry on assignment." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator