/internal/media/dispatcher/73307/fullIsadore "Izzy" Bleckman Oral History08/15/200940 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2009.001.00590Videotaped oral history interview with Isadore "Izzy" Bleckman. A photographer for Fox Movietone News in 1963, Bleckman filmed the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Earlier that weekend, he filmed on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, at the Texas Theatre, and at other assassination-related sites in the Dallas area. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 15, 2009 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty minutes long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories6415229872Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Isadore "Izzy" Bleckman. A photographer for Fox Movietone News in 1963, Bleckman filmed the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Earlier that weekend, he filmed on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, at the Texas Theatre, and at other assassination-related sites in the Dallas area. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 15, 2009 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty minutes long.Jack Ruby trialOral historiesBleckman, Isadore "Izzy"Fox Movietone NewsTexas School Book DepositoryTexas TheatreDallasNews Media (OHC)Izzy Bleckman had a long career as a TV news photographer and he is probably best remembered for his work on the award-winning CBS series, On The Road with Charles Kuralt. The series aired from 1967 until the mid-'90s as the two traveled across America talking to "regular folks" and telling their interesting stories. - Gary Mack, CuratorIsadore Bleckman passed away in August of 2021. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger