People still flock to Dealey Plaza, which the presidential motorcade was passing through when Kennedy was killed.
“I was just with a great mass of other reporters, just trying to find any bit of information,” she said.
“As an AP reporter, you just go for the phone, you can’t process anything at that point,” she said.
Simpson's recollections are included in an oral history collection at the Sixth Floor Museum that now includes about 2,500 recordings, according to Fagin.
Many of the more recent ones have been with people who were children in the '60s and remembered hearing about the assassination while at school.
Persons:
—, John F, Kennedy, Peggy Simpson, “, ” Simpson, ”, Stephen Fagin, Lee Harvey, Simpson, Clint Hill, Ella Wright, ” Wright, Fagin, Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald, Jack Ruby, Ruby, didn’t, ” Fagin
Organizations:
DALLAS, Associated Press, Dealey Plaza, Texas, . Secret, National Geographic, The Dallas Times, AP, Sixth, Museum
Locations:
Dallas, “ JFK, America, Austin, Dealey