/internal/media/dispatcher/73975/fullJohn Logan Oral History04/09/2012Duration: 76 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2012.001.00320Videotaped oral history interview with John Logan. A Dallas playwright and longtime educator, Logan wrote the play Jack Ruby, All-American Boy, which was produced by the Dallas Theater Center in 1974.
Interview conducted at [location] on April 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 Histories6479336551Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with John Logan. A Dallas playwright and longtime educator, Logan co-wrote the play "Jack Ruby, All-American Boy," which was produced by the Dallas Theater Center in 1974.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 9, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and sixteen minutes long.
Oral historiesTheaterEducationRuby, JackDallasAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)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