James Pratt Oral History
Object number2006.001.0043
Date08/11/2006
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
James Pratt
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
DimensionsDuration: 52 Minutes
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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with James Pratt. A Dallas architect and urban planner, Pratt was a local Democratic precinct chair in the early 1960s and attended the Dallas Trade Mart luncheon on the day of the Kennedy assassination. In the 1970s, he became the restoration architect for the Old Red Courthouse in Dealey Plaza.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 11, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-three minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryJames Reece Pratt passed away on November 6, 2018. His book, Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas, the result of forty years of research into the frontier utopian community Le Reunion outside of Dallas, was published two years after his death in 2020. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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