Janet Fordham and Carolyn Roderick Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Janet Fordham and Carolyn Roderick. Classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas, Fordham and Roderick witnessed the arrival of President and Mrs. Kennedy at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 25, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Janet Fordham and Carolyn Roderick Oral History

Date:

06/25/2010

Terms:

Oral histories

Student

Fordham, Janet

Roderick, Carolyn

Love Field

Dallas

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Love Field Airport (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 44 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2010.001.0054

Curatorial Note:

In addition to Ms. Fordham and Ms. Roderick, the Museum has recorded a number of oral histories with 1960s students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas. Other Jefferson alumni in the Oral History Collection include Alan Abrams, Judy Bergstrom, John Carpenter, Betty Duke-Ruhd, Richard Gump, Betty Jarrell, Don McDonald, Jerry Patton, David Ritz, George Sickler, Jan Sittel, William Ward Warren and 1960s schoolteacher Katherine Clayton. A 2019 educational program featuring Jefferson High School classmates Jan Sittel and Betty Duke-Ruhd may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator