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Peggy Simpson Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Simpson. The only female Associated Press reporter working in Texas in 1963, Simpson covered the events of the Kennedy assassination weekend at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters. On Sunday morning, she was an eyewitness to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 11, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Peggy Simpson Oral History

Date:

04/11/2005

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 71 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2005.001.0009

Curatorial Note:

Peggy Simpson worked for the Associated Press from 1962 to 1979, during which time she was a plaintiff in a gender and discrimination lawsuit against the AP. She later worked for the Boston Herald and other newspapers before opening a Washington, D.C. bureau for Ms. Magazine. In 1990, she became an adjunct professor of journalism at Indiana University. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Peggy Simpson Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Peggy Simpson. The only female Associated Press reporter working in Texas in 1963, Simpson covered the events of the Kennedy assassination weekend at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters. On Sunday morning, she was an eyewitness to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 11, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Peggy Simpson Oral History

Date:

04/11/2005

Terms:

Press

Oral histories

Simpson, Peggy

Associated Press (AP)

Dallas

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Law Enforcement (OHC)

Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)

News Media (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 71 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2005.001.0009

Curatorial Note:

Peggy Simpson worked for the Associated Press from 1962 to 1979, during which time she was a plaintiff in a gender and discrimination lawsuit against the AP. She later worked for the Boston Herald and other newspapers before opening a Washington, D.C. bureau for Ms. Magazine. In 1990, she became an adjunct professor of journalism at Indiana University. - Stephen Fagin, Curator