Rose Blatch Oral History

Besides myself, I doubt that anyone has seen more Sixth Floor Museum oral histories than Rose Blatch. A longtime friend of our institution, Rose became very interested in our Oral History Project after participating in this 2012 recording. For nearly seven years, she visited the Museum almost weekly to watch and listen to oral history recordings in the Museum's Reading Room. She was a cherished "regular" in our research center, and I had the great pleasure of visiting with her on numerous occasions. Although she was quite shy and humble, I even talked her into participating in one of our Living History educational programs in 2013. Rose was also instrumental in arranging outreach visits for me to multiple Dallas retirement homes, resulting in a number of new oral histories.

Rose made several donations to the Museum, most significantly the Western Union synchronized wall clock that was hanging in the Houston Time-Life office at the time of the Kennedy assassination: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/34862. - Stephen Fagin, Curator