James Pratt Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with James Pratt. A Dallas architect and urban planner, Pratt was a local Democratic precinct chair in the early 1960s and attended the Dallas Trade Mart luncheon on the day of the Kennedy assassination. In the 1970s, he became the restoration architect for the Old Red Courthouse in Dealey Plaza.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 11, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-three minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

James Pratt Oral History

Date:

08/11/2006

Terms:

Elections

Oral histories

Pratt, James

Old Red Courthouse

Democratic Party

Dallas

1960 Campaign (OHC)

History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

Duration: 52 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2006.001.0043

Curatorial Note:

James Reece Pratt passed away on November 6, 2018. His book, Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas, the result of forty years of research into the frontier utopian community Le Reunion outside of Dallas, was published two years after his death in 2020. - Stephen Fagin, Curator