/internal/media/dispatcher/73308/fullFrank B. Johnston Oral History08/15/200959 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2009.001.00600Videotaped oral history interview with Frank B. Johnston. A photographer with The Washington Post for 35 years, Johnston was working for the Austin bureau of the wire service United Press International in 1963. In the basement of Dallas police headquarters, he captured an image of Lee Harvey Oswald approximately one second before he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby. In 1964, Johnston testified at Ruby's trial and also covered the event as a UPI photographer.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 15, 2009 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine 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 Histories6343929873Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Frank B. Johnston. A photographer with The Washington Post for 35 years, Johnston was working for the Austin bureau of the wire service United Press International in 1963. In the basement of Dallas police headquarters, he captured an image of Lee Harvey Oswald approximately one second before he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby. In 1964, Johnston testified at Ruby's trial and also covered the event as a UPI photographer.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 15, 2009 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.PhotographerJack Ruby trialOral historiesOswald, Lee HarveyRuby, JackJohnston, Frank B.The Washington PostUnited Press International (UPI)The Washington Post, Times HeraldAustinDallasNews Media (OHC)