{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"26110"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"A teenager in 1963, Irby was near the corner of Elm and Houston streets at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In 1991, she served as a consultant to Oliver Stone during the making of his film \"JFK.\" In that capacity, she met a number of cast members and original participants from 1963 and extensively photographed the production in Dallas. Irby later donated her photographs to The Sixth Floor Museum. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 9, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2005.001.0006"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"A teenager in 1963, Irby was near the corner of Elm and Houston streets at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In 1991, she served as a consultant to Oliver Stone during the making of his film \"JFK.\" In that capacity, she met a number of cast members and original participants from 1963 and extensively photographed the production in Dallas. Irby later donated her photographs to The Sixth Floor Museum. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 9, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Hi-8 videotape"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75185/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75185"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75198/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75198"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Lovita Irby Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75185/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Dallas","Films","Movie","Photographer","Cameras","Artist","Conspiracy theories","Re-enactment","\"JFK\"","Oak Cliff","Pop Culture","Oral histories","Stone, Oliver","Costner, Kevin","Groden, Robert J.","Oswald, Marina","Hill, Jean","Oliver, Beverly","Howard, Larry","Leavelle, Jim","Kennedy, John F.","Irby, Lovita","Dallas County Jail","Dallas County Records Building","Dallas Municipal Building","Texas Theatre","Camelot Productions","Popular Culture (OHC)","Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)","Motorcade Spectators (OHC)","Artists (OHC)","Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"03/09/2005"},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Lovita Ann Irby passed away on January 29, 2021. In two batches (2005 and 2017), she donated more than 334 photographs from the production of Oliver Stone's JFK in Dallas, including a number of duplicate prints. Irby extensively photographed filming in Dealey Plaza, downtown Dallas and in Oak Cliff at locations including the Texas Theatre and Oswald's original rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Avenue. She also took photographs at the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas' West End Marketplace, which Oliver Stone used during the production of JFK. Some of her images may be found here: Search Irby (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org).  \r\n\r\nIn addition to this one-on-one oral history, Irby returned to the Museum for two follow-up interviews (June 2, 2005 and January 30, 2017) alongside her longtime friend Jim Leavelle. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"64224"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 59 Minutes"}}]}