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M. Nick McDonald oral history

M. Nick McDonald oral history

Object number2003.001.0048
Date11/20/2003
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject M. N. McDonald
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumDigital-8 videotape
Dimensions59 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with M. Nick McDonald. The arresting officer of Lee Harvey Oswald, McDonald was the first to approach him inside the Texas Theatre and was slightly wounded while scuffling with Oswald during his arrest. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 15, 2013, by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary

Mr. McDonald passed away on January 27, 2005. Eight years later, in 2013, his family published his posthumous autobiography, Oswald and I. - Stephen Fagin, Curator