/internal/media/dispatcher/75486/fullPatsy Swank Oral History06/13/1996Duration: 112 MinutesHi-8 videotapeOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1996.055.00110Videotaped oral history interview with Patsy Swank. A onetime reporter at The Dallas Morning News, Swank was a Dallas correspondent for LIFE Magazine in 1963. She observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. After the assassination, she is credited with alerting LIFE staff about the Zapruder film. Swank went on to have a long career in the Dallas arts and cultural community.
Interview conducted at Ms. Swank's home on June 13, 1996 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and fifty-two minutes long.Oral Histories7200010.16000000006.985000000015776Oral history1.9050000000Videotaped oral history interview with Patsy Swank. A onetime reporter at The Dallas Morning News, Swank was a Dallas correspondent for LIFE Magazine in 1963. She observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. After the assassination, she is credited with alerting LIFE staff about the Zapruder film. Swank went on to have a long career in the Dallas arts community.
Interview conducted at Ms. Swank's home on June 13, 1996 by Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and fifty-two minutes long.PressOral historiesLemmon AvenueZapruder filmStolley, RichardZapruder, AbrahamSwank, PatsyThe Dallas Morning NewsKERA - Channel 13LIFE MagazineDallasDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Abraham Zapruder Film (OHC)News Media (OHC)Patsy Swank passed away on February 7, 2006. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorRichard B. Stolley, the Los Angeles bureau chief for LIFE Magazine in 1963, is mentioned multiple times during this oral history. The late Mr. Stolley participated in several interviews and programs at the Museum between 1996 and 2013, including this 2008 oral history: Richard Stolley Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Stolley was later interviewed by Curator Gary Mack in 2010 (Zapruder And Stolley: Witness to an Assassination) and took part in a 2013 panel discussion on LIFE Magazine's coverage of the Kennedy assassination (LIFE: The Day Kennedy Died). - Stephen Fagin, Curator