{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"26290"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with James Cron. A jail clerk at the Dallas Police Department at the time of the Kennedy assassination, Cron started the first Crime Scene Search Unit at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department in 1970. He later became a veteran crime scene investigator and law enforcement consultant.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 10, 2007 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2007.001.0029"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with James Cron. A jail clerk at the Dallas Police Department at the time of the Kennedy assassination, Cron started the first Crime Scene Search Unit at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department in 1970. He later became a veteran crime scene investigator and law enforcement consultant.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 10, 2007 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Hi-8 videotape"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/76051/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"76051"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/76062/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"76062"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"James Cron Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/76051/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Investigations","Evidence","Police","Oral histories","Kennedy, John F.","Day, Carl","Decker, Bill","Cron, James","Dallas County Jail","Dallas Police Department","Dallas County Sheriff's Department","Dallas Police Crime Scene Search Unit","Dallas","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Law Enforcement (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"05/10/2007"},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Less than one week after this oral history, James Cron participated in a public program at The Sixth Floor Museum on May 16, 2007, entitled \"CSI: Dallas.\" This panel discussion, moderated by Dr. Tim Sliter, chief of physical evidence at UT Southwestern Institute of Forensics, featured Cron along with forensic firearms examiner Charles Clow and Dr. Stacy McDonald, deputy chief of physical evidence at UT Southwestern Institute of Forensics. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","James Gilbert Cron passed away on April 24, 2019 at the age of 79. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","The Museum's James Cron Collection (2007.012), donated at the time of this oral history, is comprised of a series of Kennedy assassination-related photographs and documents, including images of the Identification Bureau at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, Jack Ruby 1963 mugshots and images of the John F. Kennedy Memorial under construction. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"72584"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 58 Minutes"}}]}