Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

January 2, 1960

JFK ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States.

Listen to an excerpt from the oral history interview with Jacques Lowe, the Kennedys' personal photographer for many years, by clicking "Find out more."

Image: Kennedy's presidential campaign button features his face on a background of red, white and blue stripes.

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Robert B. Payne Oral History

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Robert B. Payne Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Robert B. Payne. A longtime Dallas attorney, Payne was acquainted with some of the conservative businessmen who funded the anti-Kennedy advertisement published in The Dallas Morning News on the morning of November 22, 1963. Following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, Payne visited Jack Ruby's apartment and met Ruby's sister, Eva Grant. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 18, 2001 by Gary Mack, Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

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Object title:

Robert B. Payne Oral History

Date:

12/18/2001

Terms:

Conservatives

Oral histories

Ruby, Jack

Grant, Eva

Payne, Robert B.

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Jack Ruby (OHC)
Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 44 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2001.001.0018

Curatorial Note:

Robert B. Payne passed away on April 4, 2009. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

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Robert B. Payne Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Robert B. Payne. A longtime Dallas attorney, Payne was acquainted with some of the conservative businessmen who funded the anti-Kennedy advertisement published in The Dallas Morning News on the morning of November 22, 1963. Following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, Payne visited Jack Ruby's apartment and met Ruby's sister, Eva Grant. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 18, 2001 by Gary Mack, Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Robert B. Payne Oral History

Date:

12/18/2001

Terms:

Conservatives

Oral histories

Ruby, Jack

Grant, Eva

Payne, Robert B.

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Jack Ruby (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 44 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2001.001.0018

Curatorial Note:

Robert B. Payne passed away on April 4, 2009. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

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