Robert B. Counts Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Robert B. Counts. A Dallas police patrolman, Counts escorted officials to the Dallas Trade Mart on the morning of November 22, 1963. Following the assassination, he was assigned guard duty at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 20, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-six minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Robert B. Counts Oral History

Date:

02/20/2012

Terms:

Oral histories

Dallas Police Department

Dallas Trade Mart

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas Police Headquarters

Dallas Municipal Building

Dallas

Law Enforcement (OHC)

Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 26 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2012.001.0015

Curatorial Note:

At the time of the assassination in 1963, Robert B. Counts was one of thirty-five officers in the second platoon (8AM to 4PM) of the patrol division of the Dallas Police Department. Approximately seventy law enforcement officials, representing the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Department of Public Safety, were assigned to the security detail at the Dallas Trade Mart for the scheduled presidential luncheon on November 22, 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator