Chris Gallop Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Chris Gallop. A longtime Kennedy assassination researcher, Gallop was involved in the 1989 opening of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas. His late grandfather, C.E. Nichols, was a bell captain at the Adolphus Hotel in 1963 and had many personal encounters with Jack Ruby. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 14, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-three minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Chris Gallop Oral History

Date:

01/14/2014

Terms:

Oral histories

Researchers

Conspiracy theories

Collectibles

Author

Memorabilia

Mementos

Ruby, Jack

Shaw, J. Gary

Howard, Larry

JFK Assassination Information Center

Adolphus Hotel

Dallas

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Jack Ruby (OHC)

Non-Rememberers (OHC)

Kennedy Collectors (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 33 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2014.001.0008

Curatorial Note:

For more than ten years, Chris Gallop has hosted an annual lunchon symposium at the assassination anniversary featuring authors, researchers and eyewitnesses. A 2018 episode of the "Midnight Writer News" podcast featuring Gallop may be accessed here: MWN Episode 096 – Chris Gallop and the JFK Assassination (midnightwriternews.com). Gallop's researcher mentor, author J. Gary Shaw, recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2007, which may be viewed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26343. - Stephen Fagin, Curator