Dr. Benjamin Taylor Oral History

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Dr. Benjamin Taylor Oral History

Audio oral history interview with Dr. Benjamin Taylor. Taylor is an award-winning writer and faculty member at The New School in New York City. A Fort Worth native, he shook hands with President Kennedy outside the Hotel Texas on the morning of November 22, 1963. He wrote about this experience in his memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House (2017). Interview conducted via telephone on August 10, 2018 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-two minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Dr. Benjamin Taylor Oral History

Date:

08/10/2018

Medium:

Born digital (.wav file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 43 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.001.0087

Curatorial Note:

Taylor's memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House, won the 2017 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography and was also named a New York Times Editors' Choice. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Dr. Benjamin Taylor Oral History

Audio oral history interview with Dr. Benjamin Taylor. Taylor is an award-winning writer and faculty member at The New School in New York City. A Fort Worth native, he shook hands with President Kennedy outside the Hotel Texas on the morning of November 22, 1963. He wrote about this experience in his memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House (2017). Interview conducted via telephone on August 10, 2018 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-two minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Dr. Benjamin Taylor Oral History

Date:

08/10/2018

Terms:

Oral histories

Author

Fort Worth

Trip to Texas

Kennedy, John F.

Hotel Texas

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Fort Worth (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.wav file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 43 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.001.0087

Curatorial Note:

Taylor's memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House, won the 2017 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography and was also named a New York Times Editors' Choice. - Stephen Fagin, Curator