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Jim Ewell Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Ewell. A police reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Ewell covered President Kennedy's arrival at Dallas Love Field. Following the assassination, he was in Dealey Plaza, at the Tippit shooting scene and inside the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff during the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 14, 1993 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and forty-six minutes long.
Jim Ewell Oral History
12/14/1993
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 106 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1993.011.0019
Just over twenty years after this 1993 oral history, Jim Ewell recorded a second interview with the Museum on January 31, 2014. He also participated in a 2013 Museum panel discussion in conjunction with The Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism. That public program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Journalists, Trauma and JFK: Why Storytelling Matters - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Jim Ewell Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Jim Ewell. A police reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Ewell covered President Kennedy's arrival at Dallas Love Field. Following the assassination, he was in Dealey Plaza, at the Tippit shooting scene and inside the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff during the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 14, 1993 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and forty-six minutes long.
Jim Ewell Oral History
12/14/1993
Press
Trip to Texas
Oral histories
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Tippit, J.D.
Kennedy, John F.
Ewell, Jim
Texas Theatre
Dallas County Sheriff's Department
Love Field
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas
Love Field Airport (OHC)
Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 106 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1993.011.0019
Just over twenty years after this 1993 oral history, Jim Ewell recorded a second interview with the Museum on January 31, 2014. He also participated in a 2013 Museum panel discussion in conjunction with The Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism. That public program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Journalists, Trauma and JFK: Why Storytelling Matters - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
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