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Mike Quinn Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Mike Quinn. A political reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Quinn covered the Kennedys' arrival at Dallas Love Field and rode in a press car in the motorcade, hearing shots fired in Dealey Plaza. After the assassination, he interviewed Senator Ralph Yarborough at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Quinn later covered the Warren Commission investigation. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 22, 1996 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and six minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Mike Quinn Oral History

Date:

05/22/1995

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 66 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1995.043.0016

Curatorial Note:

After leaving The Dallas Morning News in 1966, Quinn joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. He taught journalism for decades, and his students included a future publisher of the Wall Street Journal and a future vice president of the Houston Chronicle. Quinn retired from UT as an associate dean in 2004. He passed away less than two years later on January 22, 2006. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Mike Quinn Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Mike Quinn. A political reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Quinn covered the Kennedys' arrival at Dallas Love Field and rode in a press car in the motorcade, hearing shots fired in Dealey Plaza. After the assassination, he interviewed Senator Ralph Yarborough at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Quinn later covered the Warren Commission investigation. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 22, 1996 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and six minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Mike Quinn Oral History

Date:

05/22/1995

Terms:

Motorcade

Oral histories

Press

Dealey Plaza

Investigations

Yarborough, Ralph

Quinn, Mike

Parkland Hospital

Warren Commission

The Dallas Morning News

Love Field

Dallas

News Media (OHC)

Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 66 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1995.043.0016

Curatorial Note:

After leaving The Dallas Morning News in 1966, Quinn joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. He taught journalism for decades, and his students included a future publisher of the Wall Street Journal and a future vice president of the Houston Chronicle. Quinn retired from UT as an associate dean in 2004. He passed away less than two years later on January 22, 2006. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator