Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney. As a psychiatric nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Cheney interviewed Major General Edwin Walker for five hours as part of an evaluation in 1962. After developing a research interest in the Kennedy assassination, she wrote and edited several books, including Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial (2001), Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists (2002), The Mind of Oswald (2006) and a novel, I Was a VIP on 11/22/63 (2020). Interview conducted over Zoom on August 12, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney Oral History

Date:

08/12/2021

Terms:

Assassination

Oral histories

Author

Psychiatry

Medical team

Interviews

Jack Ruby trial

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Ruby, Jack

Walker, Major General Edwin A.

Parkland Hospital

Dallas

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)

Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)

Jack Ruby (OHC)

Popular Culture (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 58 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2021.001.0073

Curatorial Note:

Dr. Cheney adapted an original unpublished manuscript by the late Judge Joe B. Brown for her 2001 book, Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial. Brown's son, the late Judge Joe B. Brown Jr., donated that manuscript as well as all of his father's Ruby trial-related materials to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2004. - Stephen Fagin, Curator