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Peggy Simpson Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Simpson. The only female Associated Press reporter working in Texas in 1963, Simpson covered the events of the Kennedy assassination weekend at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters. On Sunday morning, she was an eyewitness to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 11, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.
Peggy Simpson Oral History
04/11/2005
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 71 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2005.001.0009
Peggy Simpson worked for the Associated Press from 1962 to 1979, during which time she was a plaintiff in a gender and discrimination lawsuit against the AP. She later worked for the Boston Herald and other newspapers before opening a Washington, D.C. bureau for Ms. Magazine. In 1990, she became an adjunct professor of journalism at Indiana University. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Peggy Simpson Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Simpson. The only female Associated Press reporter working in Texas in 1963, Simpson covered the events of the Kennedy assassination weekend at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters. On Sunday morning, she was an eyewitness to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 11, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.
Peggy Simpson Oral History
04/11/2005
Press
Oral histories
Simpson, Peggy
Associated Press (AP)
Dallas
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Law Enforcement (OHC)
Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 71 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2005.001.0009
Peggy Simpson worked for the Associated Press from 1962 to 1979, during which time she was a plaintiff in a gender and discrimination lawsuit against the AP. She later worked for the Boston Herald and other newspapers before opening a Washington, D.C. bureau for Ms. Magazine. In 1990, she became an adjunct professor of journalism at Indiana University. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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