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Lillian Bradshaw Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Lillian Bradshaw. Head of the Dallas Public Library System throughout the 1960s, Mrs. Bradshaw later served as a founding board member of the Dallas County Historical Foundation. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 11, 1998 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.
Lillian Bradshaw Oral History
05/11/1998
Plastic, Magnetic tape
71 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1998.019.0008
Ms. Bradshaw passed away on February 9, 2010.In the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, Bradshaw assisted investigators by providing them with access to Lee Havey Oswald's library records. At the time of the assassination, Oswald had one outstanding library book in his Dallas Public Library file, The Shark and the Sardines (1961) by former Guatemalan President Juan Jose Arevalo. The American introduction to this book proclaimed it to be "a controversial book...that speaks out against your State Department's dealings with the peoples of Latin America during the Twentieth Century."Decades later, as a founding board member of the Dallas County Historical Foundation, Bradshaw supervised fundraising for The Sixth Floor exhibit. Under her direction, the foundation raised the $1.5 million necessary to open the exhibit by Presidents Day, February 20, 1989. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Lillian Bradshaw Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Lillian Bradshaw. Head of the Dallas Public Library System throughout the 1960s, Mrs. Bradshaw later served as a founding board member of the Dallas County Historical Foundation. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 11, 1998 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.
Lillian Bradshaw Oral History
05/11/1998
Audio cassette
Oral histories
Bradshaw, Lillian
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Dallas County Historical Foundation
Dallas Public Library
Dallas
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)
Community Leaders (OHC)
Plastic, Magnetic tape
71 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1998.019.0008
Ms. Bradshaw passed away on February 9, 2010.In the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, Bradshaw assisted investigators by providing them with access to Lee Havey Oswald's library records. At the time of the assassination, Oswald had one outstanding library book in his Dallas Public Library file, The Shark and the Sardines (1961) by former Guatemalan President Juan Jose Arevalo. The American introduction to this book proclaimed it to be "a controversial book...that speaks out against your State Department's dealings with the peoples of Latin America during the Twentieth Century."Decades later, as a founding board member of the Dallas County Historical Foundation, Bradshaw supervised fundraising for The Sixth Floor exhibit. Under her direction, the foundation raised the $1.5 million necessary to open the exhibit by Presidents Day, February 20, 1989. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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