/internal/media/dispatcher/74125/fullRose Blatch Oral History01/09/2012Duration: 46 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2012.001.00010Videotaped oral history interview with Rose Blatch. Blatch was secretary of the Time-Life bureau in Dallas (1961-62) and Houston (1963-72). During their coverage of the Kennedy assassination and Jack Ruby trial, Blatch managed temporary Time-Life offices out of Dallas hotel suites.
Interview conducted at [location] on January 9, 2012 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x 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 Histories642750E-100E-1036520Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Rose Blatch. Blatch was secretary of the Time-Life bureau in Dallas (1961-62) and Houston (1963-72). During their coverage of the Kennedy assassination and Jack Ruby trial in 1963-64, Blatch managed temporary Time-Life offices out of Dallas hotel suites.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 9, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-six minutes long.
Oral historiesJack Ruby trialPressBlatch, RoseTime-LifeDallasHoustonDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)News Media (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)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 Rose Blatch passed away on June 8, 2024. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger