George Reid Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with George Reid. A longtime Kennedy supporter, Reid was a Texas campaign volunteer in 1960. He captured home movie footage of the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field and later documented the Dealey Plaza area on film on several occasions throughout the 1960s.Interview recorded at Mr. Reid's home on April 24, 1996 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and twenty-one minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

George Reid Oral History

Date:

04/24/1996

Terms:

Oral histories

Interviews

Kennedy supporter

Presidential campaign

Volunteers

Dealey Plaza

Reid, George

Love Field

Dallas

1960 Campaign (OHC)

Love Field Airport (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 81 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1996.055.0008

Curatorial Note:

Few people documented Dealey Plaza in the 1960s better than the late George Reid. In film and photographs, he captured some remarkable and historic images, including flowers in the plaza in the days following the assassination, Marguerite Oswald visiting the plaza on Mother's Day in 1964, a 1967 pro-Vietnam War demonstration in Dealey Plaza, and the construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial in 1969-70. Several of his images can be seen in the online collections database, as well as two 8mm color home movie reels: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/15499. Mr. Reid passed away on March 15, 1999. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator