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John Updike Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with John Updike. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Updike was a prolific American novelist, poet and literary critic. He was at a dental appointment in Massachusetts when he learned that President Kennedy had been shot. He wrote a short piece in "The New Yorker" in response to the assassination.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 10, 2008 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fourteen minutes long.
John Updike Oral History
01/10/2008
Born digital (.m2ts file)
14 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2008.001.0001
Mr. Updike passed away on January 27, 2009. His memories of being in the dentist chair when he learned of the Kennedy assassination were incorporated into his best-selling 1968 novel Couples. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
John Updike Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with John Updike. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Updike was a prolific American novelist, poet and literary critic. He was at a dental appointment in Massachusetts when he learned that President Kennedy had been shot. He wrote a short piece in "The New Yorker" in response to the assassination.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 10, 2008 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fourteen minutes long.
John Updike Oral History
01/10/2008
Literature
Oral histories
Updike, John
Massachusetts
Dallas
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
Popular Culture (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
14 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2008.001.0001
Mr. Updike passed away on January 27, 2009. His memories of being in the dentist chair when he learned of the Kennedy assassination were incorporated into his best-selling 1968 novel Couples. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
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