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Former members of the Warren Commission staff talked about their roles on the commission and how the experience affected their professional lives. The spoke about the behind-the-scenes, dail…

Former members of the Warren Commission staff talked about their roles on the commission and how the experience affected their professional lives. The spoke about the behind-the-scenes, dail…

J. Waymon Rose, the tenth juror in the Jack Ruby trial in 1964, spoke about the diary he kept during the trial and his experiences while a juror. He also talked about the trial’s publicity. …

Marine Corps Major William Lee (Retired) talked about his experience of guarding John F. Kennedy’s casket after the November, 1963 assassination of the president. As commander of the US Mari…

Wilborn Hampton talked about his experience as the youngest United Press International (UPI) reporter in the Dallas bureau in 1963, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald…

Members of the Newman family, who were the closest civilian eyewitnesses to President Kennedy at the time of his assassination, speak at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas about their recollec…

Buell Wesley Frazier, who worked at the Texas School Book Depository and would give Lee Harvey Oswald rides to work, talked about his remembrances of Mr. Oswald and the day of the president’…

Two members of the Dallas emergency room team who treated President Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas share their observations of his wounds. Within six minutes of the shooting in Deale…

Dr. Thomas McConnell, Pentagon Medical Officer of the Day on Nov. 22, 1963, talked about his experiences at the White House, the U.S. Capitol and at Arlington National Cemetery the weekend a…

Journalist Walter Mears talked about his time covering the campaign, administration, and assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He spoke about his time on Kennedy’s campaign and his per…

Stephen Fagin talked about his book, Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, in which he recounts the creation of the Museum, housed in the …

Gerald Blaine, one of the Secret Service agents assigned to President Kennedy’s detail the day he was assassinated on November 22, 1963, reported on his and his colleagues rememberances of t…

Historians spoke about memory and understanding politics through history. They focused on understanding milestones, the changing nature of history, and ways in which people form recollection…

Ellen Fitzpatrick, history professor at the University of New Hampshire, presents a collection of 250 condolence letters sent to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of President J…

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, is located in what was once the Texas School Book Depository. From the sixth floor, southeast corner window of this building, Lee Har…

Winston Lawson talked about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Winston Lawson was the Secret Service agent in charge of security in Dallas, and did ten days of advance work befo…

Winston Lawson talked about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Winston Lawson was the Secret Service agent in charge of security in Dallas, and did ten days of advance work befo…

H.B. McLain talked about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was a Dallas motorcycle officer in the president’s motorcade on November 22, 1963. He talked about what happened t…

Malcolm Summers talked about witnessing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He spoke about the shots he heard, the reaction in the president’s car, and the p…

Mr. Frazier, a worker in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas at the time of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, was interviewed about his experiences and recollections of the incident, a…