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 Commentary

James 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