Rev. Richard Deats Oral History
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Rev. Richard Deats Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Rev. Richard Deats. A prominent civil rights and global peace activist in the 1960s, Deats participated in an anti-Vietnam War rally near Dealey Plaza in 1969 that was disrupted by a neo-Nazi group. He was living in Boston at the time of the Kennedy assassination. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 7, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-three minutes long.
Rev. Richard Deats Oral History
08/07/2006
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 43 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2006.001.0041
Rev. Deats passed away on April 7, 2021. A longtime resident of Nyack, New York, Deats visited Dallas in 2006. When his friend, local minister Bill McElvaney, mentioned that he had recently been interviewed by The Sixth Floor Museum about a 1969 peace rally near Dealey Plaza, Deats agreed to share his own memories of the event. In addition, at the time of this oral history, he donated several items to the Museum. The Rev. Richard Deats Collection (2006.026) includes a 1969 press release and other documents related to the Dallas march and rally, as well as a series of photographic prints taken by local activist/journalist J R Compton. Drawing on Rev. Deats' oral history and other resources, I wrote about this particular April 1969 demonstration in an article focused on the Dallas activism of the Rev. Bill McElvaney, published in Legacies Dallas History Journal in Fall 2008. The full article may be accessed here: Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 20, Number 2, Fall, 2008 - Page 44 of 68 - The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Rev. Richard Deats Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Rev. Richard Deats. A prominent civil rights and global peace activist in the 1960s, Deats participated in an anti-Vietnam War rally near Dealey Plaza in 1969 that was disrupted by a neo-Nazi group. He was living in Boston at the time of the Kennedy assassination. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 7, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-three minutes long.
Rev. Richard Deats Oral History
08/07/2006
Nazis
Civil rights
Dealey Plaza
Protests
Oral histories
Deats, Rev. Richard
American Nazi Party
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 43 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2006.001.0041
Rev. Deats passed away on April 7, 2021. A longtime resident of Nyack, New York, Deats visited Dallas in 2006. When his friend, local minister Bill McElvaney, mentioned that he had recently been interviewed by The Sixth Floor Museum about a 1969 peace rally near Dealey Plaza, Deats agreed to share his own memories of the event. In addition, at the time of this oral history, he donated several items to the Museum. The Rev. Richard Deats Collection (2006.026) includes a 1969 press release and other documents related to the Dallas march and rally, as well as a series of photographic prints taken by local activist/journalist J R Compton. Drawing on Rev. Deats' oral history and other resources, I wrote about this particular April 1969 demonstration in an article focused on the Dallas activism of the Rev. Bill McElvaney, published in Legacies Dallas History Journal in Fall 2008. The full article may be accessed here: Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 20, Number 2, Fall, 2008 - Page 44 of 68 - The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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