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Charles Hodges Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Charles R. Hodges. A seventeen-year-old student at W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas, Hodges took photos at Dallas Love Field, on Stemmons Freeway immediately following the assassination and later at Parkland Memorial Hospital. That afternoon he sold his unprocessed film to an Associated Press reporter. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 13, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-nine minutes long.
Charles Hodges Oral History
06/13/2011
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 39 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2011.001.0049
Twenty-two years prior to this video interview, Charles Hodges was one of the earliest participants in the Museum's Oral History Project. He recorded a brief audio interview during a visit to the newly-opened exhibit in June 1989. It was a pleasure to reconnect with him more than two decades later, and in doing so, the Museum was also able to record interviews with three of his classmates who were with him on November 22, 1963: David Wallace, Will O'Hara and Ronald Cantrell. These interviews helped us solve a longtime photographic mystery as we were able to finally identify a group of previously unknown young men mingling with journalists outside the emergency entrance at Parkland Memorial Hospital and later inside a nurses' classroom for the official announcement of President Kennedy's death. Charles Hodges, wearing a dark shirt and holding his camera case, can be seen in this Dallas Morning News photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/45135. We shared the story of the "Boys from W.W. Samuell" in images and oral histories as part of a public program commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the assassination on November 22, 2015: Moments & Memories: Reflecting on November 22, 1963 - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Charles Hodges Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Charles R. Hodges. A seventeen-year-old student at W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas, Hodges took photos at Dallas Love Field, on Stemmons Freeway immediately following the assassination and later at Parkland Memorial Hospital. That afternoon he sold his unprocessed film to an Associated Press reporter. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 13, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-nine minutes long.
Charles Hodges Oral History
06/13/2011
Oral histories
Stemmons Freeway
Photographer
Student
Hodges, Charles R.
Associated Press (AP)
Love Field
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Love Field Airport (OHC)
Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
Childhood Recollections (OHC)
Motorcade Spectators (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 39 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2011.001.0049
Twenty-two years prior to this video interview, Charles Hodges was one of the earliest participants in the Museum's Oral History Project. He recorded a brief audio interview during a visit to the newly-opened exhibit in June 1989. It was a pleasure to reconnect with him more than two decades later, and in doing so, the Museum was also able to record interviews with three of his classmates who were with him on November 22, 1963: David Wallace, Will O'Hara and Ronald Cantrell. These interviews helped us solve a longtime photographic mystery as we were able to finally identify a group of previously unknown young men mingling with journalists outside the emergency entrance at Parkland Memorial Hospital and later inside a nurses' classroom for the official announcement of President Kennedy's death. Charles Hodges, wearing a dark shirt and holding his camera case, can be seen in this Dallas Morning News photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/45135. We shared the story of the "Boys from W.W. Samuell" in images and oral histories as part of a public program commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the assassination on November 22, 2015: Moments & Memories: Reflecting on November 22, 1963 - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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