Gail Cronauer Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Gail Cronauer. An award-winning stage and screen actress and longtime theater teacher, Cronauer portrayed "Janet Williams," a character based on Ruth Paine, in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991). Ironically, she attended the same college as Paine, Antioch College in Ohio, and was a student activist in the 1960s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 21, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Gail Cronauer Oral History

Date:

08/21/2019

Terms:

Oral histories

Childhood

Theater

"JFK"

Student

Conspiracy theories

Films

Paine, Ruth

Stone, Oliver

Dallas

Ohio

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Popular Culture (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 55 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2019.001.0104

Curatorial Note:

In addition to Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, Gail Cronauer has appeared in some fifty films and television series since 1987, including Walker, Texas Ranger and Dallas. - Stephen Fagin, Curator