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Donna Axum-Whitworth Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Donna Axum-Whitworth. A native of Arkansas, Ms. Axum-Whitworth served as Miss America 1964. She was in Dallas making a personal appearance at the Dr. Pepper Annual Bottlers Meeting on the day of the Kennedy assassination. Interview conducted at Ms. Axum-Whitworth's home on April 8, 1995 by Bob Porter. The interview is forty-six minutes long.
Donna Axum-Whitworth Oral History
04/08/1995
Hi-8 videotape
46 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1995.043.0010
The Dr. Pepper Annual Bottlers Meeting on November 22, 1963, that Ms. Axum-Whitworth attended as Miss America immediately followed a larger meeting in the same location of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages Annual Convention, which involved Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, and other major brand manufacturers. Representing the Pepsi-Cola Company at this earlier meeting was attorney--and former vice president--Richard Nixon, who had been narrowly defeated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. At the conclusion of this national bottlers meeting on November 21, Nixon left Dallas via Love Field the next morning. When the Kennedys arrived later that day, some bystanders were still holding handwritten signs that read "Nixon Go Home." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Donna Axum-Whitworth Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Donna Axum-Whitworth. A native of Arkansas, Ms. Axum-Whitworth served as Miss America 1964. She was in Dallas making a personal appearance at the Dr. Pepper Annual Bottlers Meeting on the day of the Kennedy assassination. Interview conducted at Ms. Axum-Whitworth's home on April 8, 1995 by Bob Porter. The interview is forty-six minutes long.
Donna Axum-Whitworth Oral History
04/08/1995
Miss America
Oral histories
Axum-Whitworth, Donna
Dallas
Arkansas
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
46 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1995.043.0010
The Dr. Pepper Annual Bottlers Meeting on November 22, 1963, that Ms. Axum-Whitworth attended as Miss America immediately followed a larger meeting in the same location of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages Annual Convention, which involved Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, and other major brand manufacturers. Representing the Pepsi-Cola Company at this earlier meeting was attorney--and former vice president--Richard Nixon, who had been narrowly defeated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. At the conclusion of this national bottlers meeting on November 21, Nixon left Dallas via Love Field the next morning. When the Kennedys arrived later that day, some bystanders were still holding handwritten signs that read "Nixon Go Home." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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