/internal/media/dispatcher/75241/fullDarryl Heikes Oral History04/23/2008Duration: 54 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2008.001.00280Videotaped oral history interview with Darryl Heikes. A United Press International photographer working at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Heikes captured one of the most famous professional images of the presidential motorcade at the corner of Main and Harwood Streets in downtown Dallas. He later photographed investigators at the Tippit shooting scene in Oak Cliff and Lee Harvey Oswald in police custody.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 23, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.Oral Histories645200E-100E-1026437Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Darryl Heikes. A United Press International photographer working at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Heikes captured one of the most famous professional images of the presidential motorcade at the corner of Main and Harwood Streets in downtown Dallas. He later photographed investigators at the Tippit shooting scene in Oak Cliff and Lee Harvey Oswald in police custody.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 23, 2008 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.DallasPhotographerFilmsCamerasMain StreetHarwood StreetOral historiesKennedy, John F.Oswald, Lee HarveyHeikes, DellHeikes, DarrylDallas Times HeraldUnited Press International (UPI)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Law Enforcement (OHC)Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)News Media (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Darryl Heikes passed away on September 19, 2018. On the same day as this 2008 oral history, Heikes participated in a public program at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. He returned to the Museum in 2014 for a reunion program with fellow Dallas Times Herald photographers Bob Jackson, Eamon Kennedy and William Allen. That program may be viewed here: Dallas Times Herald 1963 (youtube.com).
Darryl Heikes' wife, Dell Heikes, also recorded an oral history on April 23, 2008. It may be viewed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26438. Dell Heikes passed away on December 21, 2023. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorA number of photographs taken by the late Darryl Heikes are part of the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection. Those images may be found here: Results – Advanced Search Objects – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org). - Stephen Fagin, Curator