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Joel Ratliff Oral History

Audio oral history interview with Joel Ratliff. As an officer with the Dallas Police Department in the early 1970s, Ratliff knew many of the detectives that had worked on the Kennedy assassination investigation a decade earlier. Thirteen years old in 1963, Ratliff observed the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. His late father, Dallas police patrolman Marshall Ratliff, was assigned to the presidential luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart.Interview conducted by telephone on January 28, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Joel Ratliff Oral History

Date:

01/28/2008

Medium:

Born digital (.wav file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 45 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2008.001.0005

Curatorial Note:

Joel Ratliff's late father, Marshall J. Ratliff, was one of twenty officers working in the Warrant Section of the Service Division of the Dallas Police Department in 1963. He, along with seventy other law enforcement officials from the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Department of Public Safety, was assigned to the security detail on the first floor of the Dallas Trade Mart for the scheduled presidential luncheon on November 22, 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Joel Ratliff Oral History

Audio oral history interview with Joel Ratliff. As an officer with the Dallas Police Department in the early 1970s, Ratliff knew many of the detectives that had worked on the Kennedy assassination investigation a decade earlier. Thirteen years old in 1963, Ratliff observed the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. His late father, Dallas police patrolman Marshall Ratliff, was assigned to the presidential luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart.Interview conducted by telephone on January 28, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Joel Ratliff Oral History

Date:

01/28/2008

Terms:

Oral histories

Ratliff, Joel

Dallas

Law Enforcement (OHC)

Motorcade Spectators (OHC)

Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.wav file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 45 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2008.001.0005

Curatorial Note:

Joel Ratliff's late father, Marshall J. Ratliff, was one of twenty officers working in the Warrant Section of the Service Division of the Dallas Police Department in 1963. He, along with seventy other law enforcement officials from the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Department of Public Safety, was assigned to the security detail on the first floor of the Dallas Trade Mart for the scheduled presidential luncheon on November 22, 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator