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Michael Cochran Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Mike Cochran. A reporter with the Associated Press for nearly four decades, Cochran covered President Kennedy in Fort Worth, the assassination aftermath at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral, where he served as a pallbearer. He later covered the Jack Ruby trial in 1964. Interview conducted at Mr. Cochran's home on July 14, 1993 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and nineteen minutes long.
Michael Cochran Oral History
07/14/1993
Hi-8 videotape
2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 79 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1993.011.0014
In addition to this 1993 recording, Mr. Cochran recorded a second oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum nearly twenty years later on October 14, 2013. He passed away on January 11, 2022. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Michael Cochran Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Mike Cochran. A reporter with the Associated Press for nearly four decades, Cochran covered President Kennedy in Fort Worth, the assassination aftermath at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral, where he served as a pallbearer. He later covered the Jack Ruby trial in 1964. Interview conducted at Mr. Cochran's home on July 14, 1993 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and nineteen minutes long.
Michael Cochran Oral History
07/14/1993
Reporter
Press
Oral histories
Interviews
Fort Worth
Oswald funeral
Jack Ruby trial
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Oswald, Marguerite
Oswald, Marina
Cochran, Mike
Associated Press (AP)
Dallas
Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 79 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1993.011.0014
In addition to this 1993 recording, Mr. Cochran recorded a second oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum nearly twenty years later on October 14, 2013. He passed away on January 11, 2022. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator