Gail Fenley Rothstein Oral History
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Gail Fenley Rothstein Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Gail Fenley Rothstein. Rothstein is the daughter of the late Dallas Times Herald reporter Bob Fenley, who testified to the Warren Commission in 1964. Fenley was at Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas police headquarters during the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial in Dallas. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.
Gail Fenley Rothstein Oral History
03/11/2015
Oral histories
Reporter
Trials
Jack Ruby trial
Fenley, Bob
Ruby, Jack
Dallas Times Herald
Parkland Hospital
Love Field
Dallas Police Headquarters
Dallas Municipal Building
Dallas County Criminal Courts Building
Dallas
Childhood Recollections (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
Love Field Airport (OHC)
Jack Ruby (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 54 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2015.001.0047
The Museum's Sarah Fenley Collection (1995.030) includes numerous reporter's notebooks belonging to the late Bob Fenley, including those used during his coverage of the Kennedy assassination and Jack Ruby trial. The collection also includes press badges, newspapers, magazines and books. As discussed during this interview, donor Sarah Fenley (1930-2004) was Gail Fenley Rothstein's mother. Rothstein's father, Robert Gene "Bob" Fenley (1927-1989) was a reporter at the Dallas Times Herald from 1955 to 1967. He then became the director of medical information at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1969 until his passing in 1989. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Robert Gene "Bob" Fenley's testimony before the Warren Commission, taken on July 14, 1964 in Dallas, appears in Warren Commission volume 11 from pages 314 to 318. Fenley was primarily questioned about an encounter he had following the assassination with a Dallas Western Union employee named C.A. Hamblen. According to Fenley, Hamblen volunteered to him that Lee Harvey Oswald had come into his Western Union office and either sent a telegram or cashed a money order. The Warren Commission took testimony from Mr. Hamblen a few days later, on July 23, who suggested that Bob Fenley was mistaken in his recollection because Hamblen only thought the individual in question looked like Oswald. Contrary to Mr. Fenley's testimony, Hamblen said, "I wouldn't say that it was Lee Oswald. I would say it was someone that resembled him from the picture that I had seen in the paper and on TV." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Gail Fenley Rothstein Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Gail Fenley Rothstein. Rothstein is the daughter of the late Dallas Times Herald reporter Bob Fenley, who testified to the Warren Commission in 1964. Fenley was at Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas police headquarters during the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial in Dallas. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 11, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.
Gail Fenley Rothstein Oral History
03/11/2015
Oral histories
Reporter
Trials
Jack Ruby trial
Fenley, Bob
Ruby, Jack
Dallas Times Herald
Parkland Hospital
Love Field
Dallas Police Headquarters
Dallas Municipal Building
Dallas County Criminal Courts Building
Dallas
Childhood Recollections (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
Love Field Airport (OHC)
Jack Ruby (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file)
Duration: 54 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2015.001.0047
The Museum's Sarah Fenley Collection (1995.030) includes numerous reporter's notebooks belonging to the late Bob Fenley, including those used during his coverage of the Kennedy assassination and Jack Ruby trial. The collection also includes press badges, newspapers, magazines and books. As discussed during this interview, donor Sarah Fenley (1930-2004) was Gail Fenley Rothstein's mother. Rothstein's father, Robert Gene "Bob" Fenley (1927-1989) was a reporter at the Dallas Times Herald from 1955 to 1967. He then became the director of medical information at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1969 until his passing in 1989. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Robert Gene "Bob" Fenley's testimony before the Warren Commission, taken on July 14, 1964 in Dallas, appears in Warren Commission volume 11 from pages 314 to 318. Fenley was primarily questioned about an encounter he had following the assassination with a Dallas Western Union employee named C.A. Hamblen. According to Fenley, Hamblen volunteered to him that Lee Harvey Oswald had come into his Western Union office and either sent a telegram or cashed a money order. The Warren Commission took testimony from Mr. Hamblen a few days later, on July 23, who suggested that Bob Fenley was mistaken in his recollection because Hamblen only thought the individual in question looked like Oswald. Contrary to Mr. Fenley's testimony, Hamblen said, "I wouldn't say that it was Lee Oswald. I would say it was someone that resembled him from the picture that I had seen in the paper and on TV." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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