Glen Gatlin Living History Program

Object number2009.001.0057

Date08/12/2009

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Glen Gatlin

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions39 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped living history program with Glen Gatlin. A Dallas businessman, Gatlin was working on the twelfth floor of the Mercantile Bank building in 1963 and has vivid memories of the motorcade passing by on Main Street. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 12, 2009 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-nine minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In addition to this educational program, Mr. Gatlin participated in videotaped programs at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2008 and 2012. He also recorded a one-on-one oral history interview on April 17, 2003. His wife, Virginia Gatlin, recorded her own oral history interview on June 17, 2008.

Delivered with a commanding presence and booming baritone, Mr. Gatlin's vivid impressions of the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street are among the most interesting and moving ever captured in the Oral History Collection. In addition to engaging audiences at the Museum with his story, Gatlin's oral history was prominently featured in the Fall 2006 issue of Legacies Dallas History Journal (Volume 18, Number 2). - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator