Lisa Hembry Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Lisa Hembry. A community leader who has served as president of the Dallas Historical Society (1999-2001) and Dallas County Treasurer (2002-2006), Hembry was a student in Oak Cliff in 1963. She saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 15, 2012 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-seven minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Lisa Hembry Oral History

Date:

10/15/2012

Terms:

Oral histories

Community leaders

Student

Oak Cliff

Motorcade

Main Street

Youth

Dallas County

Dallas Historical Society

Dallas

Motorcade Spectators (OHC)

Community Leaders (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 27 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2012.001.0086

Curatorial Note:

Lisa Hembry, an eighth grade student at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Oak Cliff, skipped class with friends to see the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. Following this 2012 oral history recording, she identified herself in a crowd photograph taken on Main Street immediately after the presidential parade passed that location. She appears in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection image 1989.100.0009.0001. - Stephen Fagin, Curator