L. D. Montgomery Oral History
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L. D. Montgomery Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with L. D. Montgomery. A Dallas police homicide detective in 1963, Montgomery was sent to the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination where he discovered a brown paper bag on the sixth floor that might have been used to carry a weapon into the building. On Sunday, Montgomery was walking directly behind Lee Harvey Oswald when Jack Ruby shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 25, 2002 by Gary Mack and Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.
L. D. Montgomery Oral History
11/25/2002
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 58 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2002.001.0043
L. D. Montgomery passed away on October 4, 2010. On the afternoon of the assassination, Montgomery can be seen carrying the brown paper bag out the front entrance of the Texas School Book Depository in this Dallas Times Herald photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3656. An FBI report of an interview with L. D. Montgomery, dated December 5, 1963, appears as Montgomery Exhibits 5005 and 5006 in Warren Commission volume 20, pages 629-630. Montgomery's March 24, 1964 testimony before the Warren Commission begins on page 21 in volume 13. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
L. D. Montgomery Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with L. D. Montgomery. A Dallas police homicide detective in 1963, Montgomery was sent to the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination where he discovered a brown paper bag on the sixth floor that might have been used to carry a weapon into the building. On Sunday, Montgomery was walking directly behind Lee Harvey Oswald when Jack Ruby shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 25, 2002 by Gary Mack and Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.
L. D. Montgomery Oral History
11/25/2002
Oral histories
Day, Carl
Montgomery, Leslie D.
Texas School Book Depository
Dallas
Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
Jack Ruby (OHC)
Law Enforcement (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 58 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2002.001.0043
L. D. Montgomery passed away on October 4, 2010. On the afternoon of the assassination, Montgomery can be seen carrying the brown paper bag out the front entrance of the Texas School Book Depository in this Dallas Times Herald photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3656. An FBI report of an interview with L. D. Montgomery, dated December 5, 1963, appears as Montgomery Exhibits 5005 and 5006 in Warren Commission volume 20, pages 629-630. Montgomery's March 24, 1964 testimony before the Warren Commission begins on page 21 in volume 13. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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