Barney Mozley Oral History
Object number2002.001.0011
Date04/19/2002
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Barney Mozley
Oral history interviewer
Arlinda Abbott
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
DimensionsDuration: 61 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Barney Mozley. An employee of Union Terminal for twenty-two years, Mozley was a veteran of Dallas railroad switching towers. On November 22, 1963, Mozley relieved tower operator and assassination eyewitness Lee Bowers and worked the evening shift in the tower located near the Texas School Book Depository.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 19, 2002 by Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and one minute long.
Curatorial CommentaryAs part of a switching tower restoration project in the early 2000s, the Museum actively pursued oral histories with former tower operators and railroad personnel who could talk about the switching tower's history and operation as well as operator Lee Bowers. In addition to this interview with Barney Mozley, the Museum recorded oral histories with fellow tower operator Gene Veal, Rock Island Railroad employee Robert Fredland and Union Tower switchmen Utah Rogers and Olan DeGaugh. A 2001 joint interview with Gene Veal and Utah Rogers may be viewed in full here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/21287. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Barney Mozley's grandson, Greg Mozley, assisted in the scheduling of this interview. He joined his grandfather on camera for the last fifteen minutes of the recording to ask additional questions and look at photographs of the railroad switching tower in the parking lot of the former Texas School Book Depository building. Barney Mozley passed away on November 1, 2004. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
