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Ann Atterberry Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Ann Atterberry. A women's news reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Atterberry witnessed the Kennedy assassination from the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. She can be seen in the Abraham Zapruder film. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 10, 2003 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Ann Atterberry Oral History

Date:

11/10/2003

Medium:

Digital-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 49 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2003.001.0044

Curatorial Note:

Ann Donaldson Atterberry passed away on October 23, 2009 at the age of 72. Her roomate in 1963, mentioned during this oral history, was fellow Dallas Morning News employee and assassination eyewitness Mary Woodward Pillsworth. The late Ms. Pillsworth recorded an oral history in 2013 and returned to the Museum for a public program in 2015: Living History with Mary Woodward Pillsworth (youtube.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Ann Atterberry Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Ann Atterberry. A women's news reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Atterberry witnessed the Kennedy assassination from the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. She can be seen in the Abraham Zapruder film. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 10, 2003 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Ann Atterberry Oral History

Date:

11/10/2003

Terms:

Oral histories

Motorcade

Limousine

Witnesses

Motorcycles

Newspapers

Reporter

Dealey Plaza

Assassination

Zapruder film

Atterberry, Ann

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Jacqueline

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas

Motorcade Spectators (OHC)

Abraham Zapruder Film (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

News Media (OHC)

Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses (OHC)

Medium:

Digital-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 49 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2003.001.0044

Curatorial Note:

Ann Donaldson Atterberry passed away on October 23, 2009 at the age of 72. Her roomate in 1963, mentioned during this oral history, was fellow Dallas Morning News employee and assassination eyewitness Mary Woodward Pillsworth. The late Ms. Pillsworth recorded an oral history in 2013 and returned to the Museum for a public program in 2015: Living History with Mary Woodward Pillsworth (youtube.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator