B. H. "Tim" Timmins Jr. Oral History
Object number2003.001.0033
Date09/18/2003
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
B. H. Timmins Jr.
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
DimensionsDuration: 183 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with B. H. "Tim" Timmins Jr. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Dallas, Timmins worked directly with the FBI and reported to the Justice Department following the Kennedy assassination. In 1966, he argued the Mannlicher-Carcano forfeiture case in federal court. Timmins maintained a longtime research interest in the assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 18, 2003 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is three hours and four minutes.
Curatorial CommentaryB. H. "Tim" Timmins Jr. passed away on April 2, 2013. His two oral histories with The Sixth Floor Museum, recorded in 2003 and 2004, total nearly five hours. His was the longest interview in the Museum's Oral History Collection for more than a decade until Warren Commission assistant counsel Howard Willens participated in a record eleven-hour oral history in 2018. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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