Pastor G. James Christopher Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Pastor G. James Christopher. A young civil rights activist in the 1960s, Christopher was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As pastor of the St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Dallas, he provided the invocation at the opening of The Sixth Floor exhibit on February 20, 1989. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 19, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-five minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Pastor G. James Christopher Oral History

Date:

04/19/2019

Terms:

Oral histories

Civil rights

Religion

Community leaders

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

County Commissioners Court

Dallas County Historical Foundation

Dallas

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 35 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2019.001.0045

Curatorial Note:

As discussed during this interview, a line from Pastor Christopher's invocation at the opening of The Sixth Floor exhibit -- "Today we stand whole again" -- was used as the front-page headline for the Dallas Times Herald on February 20, 1989. That front page may be found as part of the Museum's Dealey Plaza Interactive Guide (Dealey Plaza Interactive Guide (jfk.org)). Specifically, an image of the newspaper's front page is seen on the thirteenth slide in the "Facing Tragedy" visual story. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator