Dr. John M. Dempsey Oral History

Object number2002.001.0045

Date12/06/2002

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject John Mark Dempsey

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

Oral history interviewer Arlinda Abbott

ObjectOral history

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

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 80 Minutes

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Oral History Collection
Jack Ruby

DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. John Mark Dempsey. An associate professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Dempsey is the author of The Jack Ruby Trial Revisited (2000), based on the diary written by his late uncle, jury foreman Max Causey. Dempsey later co-wrote Eddie Barker's Notebook (2006), the memoir of longtime KRLD-TV news director Eddie Barker. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on December 6, 2002 by Stephen Fagin and Arlinda Abbott. The interview is one hour and twenty minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In addition to this 2002 oral history, Dr. Dempsey returned to the Museum for a follow-up interview in 2014. At that time, he donated to the Museum audio cassette interviews that he conducted in the late 1990s with four Ruby trial jurors. Sadly, as of 2023, Robert Flechtner is the last known surviving juror from that 1964 trial. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator