Today I am back to working on my manuscript on Dallas Times Herald women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. I am writing about her coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy. She was waiting to watch the president at the Trade Mart. The above hate ad ran in Dallas Morning News on the morning of the assassination. In an oral history, Vivian recalled being relieved that her newspaper did not run the ad.

I am working on my book chapter about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and her role in the women’s liberation movement. This is the lead from the 1980 article she wrote, “Equality: How Far Do Men Want To Go?” “Many men say they desire relationships of equality with women. But the past often dies hard – for both men and women. For many men, equality stops with dirty dishes and the dirty diapers. For many women, it stops with when the car stalls on the freeway and when the kitchen sink stops up.”

I am working on my book chapter about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and her role in the women’s liberation movement. This is the lead from the 1980 article she wrote, “Equality: How Far Do Men Want To Go?” “Many men say they desire relationships of equality with women. But the past often dies hard – for both men and women. For many men, equality stops with dirty dishes and the dirty diapers. For many women, it stops with when the car stalls on the freeway and when the kitchen sink stops up.”

Today I did more work on my Vivian Castleberry book today, focusing on her college years at Southern Methodist University during World War II. Because so many men were off serving their country, she had opportunities that she would have not had otherwise such as being editor of the student newspaper. The above image came from her 1944 yearbook, the Rotunda, that I found on eBay.

Today I did more work on my Vivian Castleberry book today, focusing on her college years at Southern Methodist University during World War II. Because so many men were off serving their country, she had opportunities that she would have not had otherwise such as being editor of the student newspaper. The above image came from her 1944 yearbook, the Rotunda, that I found on eBay.

I recently received several letters written between Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre, as well as some letters about Vivian. The letters can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. In these letters, including the one above written by Vivian’s fashion editor, gave me some new insight into Vivian’s life. This letter referenced a severe illness that Vivian’s husband Curtis went through – an incident that I had not been aware of before. Their marriage was and is a true partnership.