Longe Edwards Oral History
Object number2010.001.0015
Date03/12/2010
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Longe Edwards
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 29 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Longe Edwards. Six years old in 1963, Edwards saw the presidential party arrive at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth on November 21, 1963. Decades later, as the audio-visual manager at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, he coordinated with Oliver Stone for access during the filming of JFK (1991).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 12, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial CommentarySt. Paul was the oldest private hospital in Dallas, having been founded as St. Paul Sanitarium back in 1896. The facility, which desegregated in 1959, was active at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, having by that time expanded to multiple buildings, including a new 484-bed medical center that admitted its first patients months before President Kennedy's visit to Dallas. By the time it was used for filming scenes in Oliver Stone's JFK in 1991, St. Paul was nearing the end of its long life. Less than a decade later, its physical assets were purchased by UT Southwestern Medical School. St. Paul Media Center was demolished in November 2015. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
