/internal/media/dispatcher/74070/fullRobert B. Counts Oral History02/20/2012Duration: 26 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2012.001.00150Videotaped 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 [location] on February 20, 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 Histories647920E-100E-1036534Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.
Oral historiesDallas Police DepartmentDallas Trade MartTexas School Book DepositoryDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallasLaw Enforcement (OHC)Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)At 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