Living History with Kari-Mette Pigmans
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- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented an interview with Kari-Mette Pigmans, a Pan Am stewardess aboard the White House press plane in the early 1960s. She had met President Kennedy several times and was at Dallas Love Field at the time of the assassination. The program was moderated by Museum Associate Curator Stephen Fagin.
This presentation took place at the Museum on March 29, 2014 as part of the 2014 Living History Series. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org). Or make a research appointment to explore the books, DVDs and other materials available in the Museum's Reading Room (www.jfk.org/go/....
What a poised, well spoken, distinguished, pretty, eloquent, and beautiful woman. So proud to have her as my Mom!
Erik Pigmans Norwegian class act!
What a great memory she has and remembers so many details.. I enjoyed watching every minute of it......
As a former Pan Am stewardess from 1962 to 1964, it is so nice to see this interview with such a lovely, poised and gracious Pan Am colleague. Thank you.
Mary Lou Bigelow
Also as a former Pan Am stewardess from 1960 to 1962 having just watched this great interview with Kari-Mette, very well spoken, beautiful, and gracious. She brings back to me many wonderful memories from my Pan Am time. I wish this video could reach all the earlier Pan AM stewardesses to hear and see.
Birgitta Burholm - Bexelius
Very classy and elegant lady. What memories to have! I’ve been an FA for TWA, United and Alaska, but can’t imagine having such a grand and charmed career. Her beautiful looks and language skills paid big dividends for her. But to have been in Dallas on that tragic day…what a momentous thing!
She is still so beautiful. It was nice to hear her story. The sixties. Time it was. And what a time it was, it was a time of innocence a time of confidences. Yet it was a time of no sense and a time of turbulence. She has preserved her memories with a photograph. Thanks!
Enjoyed the interview!
I may have posted this, but when I was in kindergarten and I had the only working mom (as a divorcée as well, the only kid in the school practically, not proud but at the age time other moms were jealous, think of the song “Harper Valley PTA” where my mom was concerned), but I told everyone my mom was a stewardess. She was an office secretary. She was very amused. Stewardesses were the hot thing in the day.
Good interview
My Dad worked for Pan Am. We flew in dress clothes to fly.
In our house in Ethiopia it was grief when JFK died!
PanAm was a great airline - of course, that lousy deregulation ruined that. And STANDARDS - Imagine that.
Stewardesses should still be weighed.
Wow, what dumb questions. My daughter and I could’ve come up with dozens of questions, I’d be asking about the events of the day and Pan Am, and my daughter would be all about the clothes and uniforms!
Refreshing she is not woke, classy lady. Imagine a world where there were standards for excellence.
21:22 “this time we had to wait awhile “….well, if you’ve read “Best Evidence” this may have been fortuitous, if you are a conspiracy theorist, as I admittedly am, the fact that the press was running all over and were delayed in following Air Force One, let alone Air Force Two, may have prevented the press to see any shenanigans going on either before the planes left or once they landed in DC. In other words, no one may have been observing what happened on the other side of the plane(s) once they arrived in DC
Their was no conspiracy, the fact that a loser like Oswald could take out someone like JFK , some people can’t accept. Besides, from Parkland to Bethesda, Jackie never left the coffin
INTERESTING NAME PIGMANS!
Very pretty
There's a good TV series on PM stewardesses