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Robert B. Payne Oral History

Object number2001.001.0018
Date12/18/2001
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Robert B. Payne
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
DimensionsDuration: 44 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Robert B. Payne. A longtime Dallas attorney, Payne was acquainted with some of the conservative businessmen who funded the anti-Kennedy advertisement published in The Dallas Morning News on the morning of November 22, 1963. Following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, Payne visited Jack Ruby's apartment and met Ruby's sister, Eva Grant. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 18, 2001 by Gary Mack, Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Robert B. Payne passed away on April 4, 2009. - Stephen Fagin, Curator