Peggy Carey Oral History

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Peggy Carey Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Carey. A California high school student, Carey celebrated her seventeenth birthday four days prior to the Kennedy assassination. She was inspired in part by President Kennedy's death to later become a stenographer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Interview conducted by telephone on September 17, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-two minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Peggy Carey Oral History

Date:

09/17/2015

Medium:

Born digital (.wav file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 22 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2015.001.0129

Curatorial Note:

As of 2023, the Museum has recorded oral history interviews with nine male FBI agents. To date, Peggy Carey is the only female employee of the FBI to record an oral history, although she was not working at the Bureau at the time of the assassination in 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Peggy Carey Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Carey. A California high school student, Carey celebrated her seventeenth birthday four days prior to the Kennedy assassination. She was inspired in part by President Kennedy's death to later become a stenographer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Interview conducted by telephone on September 17, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-two minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Peggy Carey Oral History

Date:

09/17/2015

Terms:

Oral histories

Student

Youth

Federal Bureau of Investigation

California

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Law Enforcement (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.wav file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 22 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2015.001.0129

Curatorial Note:

As of 2023, the Museum has recorded oral history interviews with nine male FBI agents. To date, Peggy Carey is the only female employee of the FBI to record an oral history, although she was not working at the Bureau at the time of the assassination in 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator