Ben Molina Oral History

Object number2005.001.0017

Date06/30/2005

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Ben Molina

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 Ben Molina. A longtime employee of Dallas CBS affiliate KRLD-TV, Molina was the station's stage manager in 1963 and was assigned to Dallas police headquarters following the Kennedy assassination. On Sunday, November 24, he was standing outside the entrance to the police basement with CBS News correspondent Nelson Benton when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 30, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Ben Molina passed away on January 6, 2019. He can be seen wearing a headset in a hallway of Dallas police headquarters in this Dallas Times Herald photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/4027. - Stephen Fagin, Curator