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Ray Adler Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Ray Adler. An employee of the First National Bank of Dallas in 1963, Adler took photographs of the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street and sold his roll of unprocessed film to a Life Magazine reporter later that day. Beginning in 1969, Adler spent seventeen years at the Dallas Times Herald. While serving as assistant managing editor, he maintained the newspaper's significant file of Kennedy assassination-related negatives. Interview recorded at Mr. Adler's home on February 3, 1995 by Bob Porter. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Ray Adler Oral History

Date:

02/03/1995

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1995.043.0004

Curatorial Note:

Ray Henry Adler passed away on December 15, 2002 at the age of 60. During his seventeen years at the Dallas Times Herald, he led the photography and graphics departments to two Pulitzer Prizes in Feature Photography (1980, 1983). Adler left the Times Herald in the late 1980s to start a Dallas-based PR firm, Adler Communications Group. The Dallas Times Herald's collection of approximately 700 Kennedy assassination-related negatives, discussed in this interview, were donated in 1989 to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Scans of those negatives and contact sheets may be found here: Works – Dallas Times Herald – Collections – eMuseum (jfk.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Ray Adler Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Ray Adler. An employee of the First National Bank of Dallas in 1963, Adler took photographs of the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street and sold his roll of unprocessed film to a Life Magazine reporter later that day. Beginning in 1969, Adler spent seventeen years at the Dallas Times Herald. While serving as assistant managing editor, he maintained the newspaper's significant file of Kennedy assassination-related negatives. Interview recorded at Mr. Adler's home on February 3, 1995 by Bob Porter. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Ray Adler Oral History

Date:

02/03/1995

Terms:

Oral histories

Press

Motorcade

Photographs

Adler, Ray

Dallas Times Herald

LIFE Magazine

Dallas

Motorcade Spectators (OHC)

News Media (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1995.043.0004

Curatorial Note:

Ray Henry Adler passed away on December 15, 2002 at the age of 60. During his seventeen years at the Dallas Times Herald, he led the photography and graphics departments to two Pulitzer Prizes in Feature Photography (1980, 1983). Adler left the Times Herald in the late 1980s to start a Dallas-based PR firm, Adler Communications Group. The Dallas Times Herald's collection of approximately 700 Kennedy assassination-related negatives, discussed in this interview, were donated in 1989 to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Scans of those negatives and contact sheets may be found here: Works – Dallas Times Herald – Collections – eMuseum (jfk.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator