Brown W. Higginbotham Oral History

Object number2007.001.0086

Date10/19/2007

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Brown W. Higginbotham

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions23 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Brown W. Higginbotham. A truck driver with Central Motor Freight in Dallas, Higginbotham picked up a shipment of book boxes at the loading dock of the Texas School Book Depository building approximately twenty minutes after the assassination. He then picked up a shipment at the Dal-Tex building across the street in Dealey Plaza. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on October 19, 2007 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin and Curator Gary Mack. The interview is 23 minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Mr. Higginbotham passed away on July 5, 2016. Central Freight Lines, founded in 1925, is one of the oldest continuously operating Texas motor carriers and the state's largest intrastate motor carrier. There is a full company history available in the online Handbook of Texas History: TSHA | Central Freight Lines (tshaonline.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator