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Jan Sanders Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Jan Sanders. The widow of Judge Barefoot Sanders, Sanders was with Judge Sarah T. Hughes at the Dallas Trade Mart on November 22, 1963, and later traveled with her to Washington, D.C. for President Kennedy's funeral. A longtime community leader, who volunteered during the 1960 Kennedy campaign, Sanders was a noted social rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 31, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirty-six minutes long.
Jan Sanders Oral History
01/31/2006
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 96 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2006.001.0004
Nearly eleven years after this 2006 oral history, Jan Sanders returned to the Museum for a 70-minute follow-up interview recorded on November 28, 2016. The 2016 oral history may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/47259. In addition, her late husband, longtime U.S. district judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, recorded an oral history on March 8, 1995. He also participated in a Museum program about the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, organized by The Center for American and International Law. That 2004 program may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: The Jack Ruby Trial: A Panel Discussion - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Jan Sanders Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Jan Sanders. The widow of Judge Barefoot Sanders, Sanders was with Judge Sarah T. Hughes at the Dallas Trade Mart on November 22, 1963, and later traveled with her to Washington, D.C. for President Kennedy's funeral. A longtime community leader, who volunteered during the 1960 Kennedy campaign, Sanders was a noted social rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 31, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirty-six minutes long.
Jan Sanders Oral History
01/31/2006
Trade Mart luncheon
Funeral services
Women's rights
Peace
Oral histories
Hughes, Sarah T.
Sanders, Barefoot
Sanders, Jan
Dallas Trade Mart
Dallas
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Community Leaders (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
White House and State Officials (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 96 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2006.001.0004
Nearly eleven years after this 2006 oral history, Jan Sanders returned to the Museum for a 70-minute follow-up interview recorded on November 28, 2016. The 2016 oral history may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/47259. In addition, her late husband, longtime U.S. district judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, recorded an oral history on March 8, 1995. He also participated in a Museum program about the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, organized by The Center for American and International Law. That 2004 program may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: The Jack Ruby Trial: A Panel Discussion - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator