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Tom Vandergriff Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Judge Tom Vandergriff. A one-time Tarrant County judge and a former U.S. congressman, Vandergriff was the mayor of Arlington, Texas, in 1963 and attended the Fort Worth breakfast for President Kennedy. Prior to the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, Marguerite, was briefly employed in his home to help the Vandergriffs after the birth of their fourth child. Interview conducted at Mr. Vandergriff's office on June 3, 1992 by Wes Wise with Bob Porter. The interview is thirty-two minutes long.
Tom Vandergriff Oral History
06/03/1992
Hi-8 videotape
32 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1992.009.0002
Mr. Vandergriff passed away on December 30, 2010. Several obituraries remarked upon his accomplishments as mayor of Arlington such as bringing the General Motors Assembly Plant and the Texas Rangers baseball team to the city, as well as his involvement in the creation of the Six Flags Over Texas theme park and Arlington Memorial Hospital. His incidental yet unique connection to the Kennedy story was rarely mentioned. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Tom Vandergriff Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Judge Tom Vandergriff. A one-time Tarrant County judge and a former U.S. congressman, Vandergriff was the mayor of Arlington, Texas, in 1963 and attended the Fort Worth breakfast for President Kennedy. Prior to the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, Marguerite, was briefly employed in his home to help the Vandergriffs after the birth of their fourth child. Interview conducted at Mr. Vandergriff's office on June 3, 1992 by Wes Wise with Bob Porter. The interview is thirty-two minutes long.
Tom Vandergriff Oral History
06/03/1992
Fort Worth breakfast
Public officials
Oral histories
Oswald, Marguerite
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Vandergriff, Tom
Arlington
Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
32 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1992.009.0002
Mr. Vandergriff passed away on December 30, 2010. Several obituraries remarked upon his accomplishments as mayor of Arlington such as bringing the General Motors Assembly Plant and the Texas Rangers baseball team to the city, as well as his involvement in the creation of the Six Flags Over Texas theme park and Arlington Memorial Hospital. His incidental yet unique connection to the Kennedy story was rarely mentioned. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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