Jack Davis Oral History

Object number2002.001.0027

Date08/06/2002

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Jack Davis

Oral history interviewer Gary Mack (1946 - 2015)

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 57 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Jack Davis. A teenager in Oak Cliff, Davis was inside the Texas Theatre when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on November 22, 1963. Davis recalled that Oswald briefly sat next to him before changing seats. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 6, 2002 by Gary Mack and Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Since Jack Davis recalled that Lee Harvey Oswald changed seats multiple times and sat next to various people in the largely empty movie theater, this has led some researchers to speculate that Oswald may have been trying to meet up with a contact following the assassination. As a result, Davis's eyewitness account has appeared or been referenced in several books and research publications over the years. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator