Malcolm E. Barker Oral History
Object number2008.001.0065
Date08/08/2008
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Malcolm E. Barker
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumCD
Dimensions75 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionAudio-recorded oral history interview with Malcolm E. Barker. A native of Great Britain, Barker was living in California at the time of the assassination. Six months later, he visited Dallas as part of a two-month cross-country tour, during which he witnessed and extensively photographed FBI and Secret Service agents studying the shooting in Dealey Plaza on May 24, 1964. In 2008, Barker donated his photographs to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
Interview conducted by telephone on August 8, 2008 by Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator. The interview is one hour and fifteen minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryThe FBI, with assistance from the Secret Service, Dallas Police and Dallas County surveyor Robert West, tried to determine for the Warren Commission exactly how the assassination happened during a 1964 visit to Dealey Plaza. Their work included re-creating the positions of the limousine at the time of the shooting, including the angles and distances involved. Barker's color pictures are the only known color images of investigators at work that day. - Gary Mack, Curator
