Robert B. Counts Oral History
Object number2012.001.0015
Date02/20/2012
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Robert B. Counts
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 26 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Robert B. Counts. A Dallas police patrolman, Counts escorted officials to the Dallas Trade Mart on the morning of November 22, 1963. Following the assassination, he was assigned guard duty at the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 20, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-six minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryAt the time of the assassination in 1963, Robert B. Counts was one of thirty-five officers in the second platoon (8AM to 4PM) of the patrol division of the Dallas Police Department. Approximately seventy law enforcement officials, representing the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Department of Public Safety, were assigned to the security detail at the Dallas Trade Mart for the scheduled presidential luncheon on November 22, 1963. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
