/internal/media/dispatcher/75355/fullCharles L. Brown Oral History03/01/2007Duration: 47 MinutesHi-8 videotapeOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2007.001.00120Videotaped oral history interview with Charles L. Brown. An employee of the Lone Star Gas Company in 1963, Brown photographed the Kennedy motorcade on Harwood Street. His uncle, the late Lynn Brown, was the mayor of Irving, Texas, at the time and traveled with Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell to Washington, D.C. to attend President Kennedy's funeral.
Interview conducted at Mr. Brown's home in Irving, Texas on March 1, 2007 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.Oral Histories6339426265Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Charles L. Brown. An employee of the Lone Star Gas Company in 1963, Brown photographed the Kennedy motorcade on Harwood Street. His uncle, the late Lynn Brown, was the mayor of Irving, Texas, at the time and traveled with Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell to Washington, D.C. to attend President Kennedy's funeral.
Interview conducted at Mr. Brown's home in Irving, Texas on March 1, 2007 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.Harwood StreetMotorcadeLimousineWitnessesMotorcyclesAssassinationFuneral servicesOral historiesKennedy, John F.Kennedy, JacquelineJohnson, AnnBrown, Jean JohnsonBrown, Charles L.Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Community Leaders (OHC)Kennedy Funeral (OHC)Charles L. Brown passed away on May 4, 2016. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorThe same day as this oral history interview with Charles L. Brown, I also recorded an interview with his wife, the late Jean Johnson Brown, and her mother, the late Ann Johnson. Mrs. Johnson, a waitress for Jetton's Catering in 1963, served at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast on the morning of the assassination. Ann Johnson passed away in 2012. Jean Johnson Brown passed away in 2017. - Stephen Fagin, Curator