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Ronald Wilson and Harold Slack Oral History

Ronald Wilson and Harold Slack Oral History

Object number2009.001.0096
Date12/05/2009
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Ronald Wilson
Oral history interview subject Harold T. Slack
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
Dimensions41 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Ronald Wilson and Harold Slack. Both Wilson and Slack were U.S. Marines at the 8th and I barracks in D.C. in 1963 and participated in President Kennedy's funeral services. Wilson, one of the only African Americans stationed at the barracks, was Catholic and served the president communion at a Catholic Mass at Camp David a few weeks before the assassination. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 5, 2009, by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-one minutes long.