John Logan Oral History
In March 2012, I was asked to greet the playwright who co-authored Jack Ruby, All-American Boy for the Dallas Theater Center in 1974. Much to my surprise, it turned out to be John Logan, my tenth grade English teacher in Mesquite, Texas. It was wonderful to reunite with a former teacher and learn about his unique contribution to the legacy of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas.
In a 2012 retrospective, the Dallas Observer described Jack Ruby, All-American Boy as "a noisy, sexy, audacious three-act, three-ring circus of drama, comedy and satire, a bold and bizarrely fanciful biography of the man who killed the man who killed JFK." Although the play, which premiered at the Dallas Theater Center on April 23, 1974, had a short one-month run of sold-out performances, it was reviewed in Time and The New Yorker. It was also the subject of a four-minute report by Walter Cronkite during his CBS Evening News broadcast on May 14, 1974. - Stephen Fagin, Curator