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Charles Cox Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Charles Cox. Cox was a freshman at Southern Methodist University in Dallas at the time of the assassination. As academic committee chair of the SMU Students’ Association, he coordinated a speech on campus by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 17, 1966. Cox went on to serve in the Vietnam War. Interview conducted at Mr. Cox's home in Dallas, TX, on April 18, 2018, by Stephen Fagin and C. Dealey Campbell of the Dallas Historical Society. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.
Charles Cox Oral History
04/18/2018
Born digital (.m2ts file)
47 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.001.0032
Southern Methodist University's website provides extensive information and resources about Dr. King's visit to SMU on March 17, 1966. An audio recording of King's speech, transcripts of both King's address and Charles Cox's introduction, the original invitation letter sent to King in August 1965 and local news coverage of the visit can be accessed here: https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/MLK. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Charles Cox Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Charles Cox. Cox was a freshman at Southern Methodist University in Dallas at the time of the assassination. As academic committee chair of the SMU Students’ Association, he coordinated a speech on campus by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 17, 1966. Cox went on to serve in the Vietnam War. Interview conducted at Mr. Cox's home in Dallas, TX, on April 18, 2018, by Stephen Fagin and C. Dealey Campbell of the Dallas Historical Society. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.
Charles Cox Oral History
04/18/2018
Oral histories
Vietnam
Student
Speeches
Speaker
Civil rights
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Dallas Historical Society
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Childhood Recollections (OHC)
Vietnam (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
47 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.001.0032
Southern Methodist University's website provides extensive information and resources about Dr. King's visit to SMU on March 17, 1966. An audio recording of King's speech, transcripts of both King's address and Charles Cox's introduction, the original invitation letter sent to King in August 1965 and local news coverage of the visit can be accessed here: https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/MLK. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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