A. Dale Wunderlich Oral History
Object number2005.001.0030
Date10/15/2005
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
A. Dale Wunderlich
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
DimensionsDuration: 49 Minutes
Terms
- Investigations
- Evidence
- Fort Worth
- Fort Worth breakfast
- Trip to Texas
- Threats
- Oral histories
- Kennedy, John F.
- Oswald, Lee Harvey
- Oswald, Marina
- Wunderlich, A. Dale
- Secret Service
- Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
- Hotel Texas
- Warren Commission
- Dallas
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Fort Worth (OHC)
- Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
- Law Enforcement (OHC)
- White House and State Officials (OHC)
Collections
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with A. Dale Wunderlich. A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the Protective Research Division in 1963, Wunderlich led an intelligence advance in Fort Worth prior to the presidential visit, coordinating sweeps of the Hotel Texas and conducting background checks on all hotel employees. Following the Kennedy assassination, he was part of a team that provided security for Marina Oswald for several months prior to her Warren Commission testimony.
Interview recorded at the Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth on October 15, 2005 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryA. Dale Wunderlich passed away on April 25, 2019 at the age of 82. After joining the U.S. Secret Service in 1963, he went on to protect Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan, in addition to Queen Elizabeth, Henry Kissinger, and other dignitaries. He later founded an international security consulting firm in Denver, Colorado. As of 2025, that company, WGRisk, is still in operation and is today based in Ontario, Canada. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
