/internal/media/dispatcher/73976/fullKenneth Latimer Oral History04/09/2012Duration: 62 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2012.001.00330Videotaped oral history interview with Kenneth Latimer. A founding member of the Dallas Theater Center, Latimer saw President Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963. Latimer later played the title character in the theater center's 1974 production, Jack Ruby, All-American Boy.
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 Histories648690E-100E-1036552Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Kenneth Latimer. A founding member of the Dallas Theater Center, Latimer saw President Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963. Latimer later played the title character in the theater center's 1974 production, "Jack Ruby, All-American Boy."
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 9, 2012 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and five minutes long.
Oral historiesTheaterMotorcadeRuby, JackDallasAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Jack Ruby (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Following this oral history, Kenneth Latimer became an active supporter of The Sixth Floor Museum and attended a number of public programs until his passing on May 14, 2018. Later that year, widow Martha Jarmon Latimer donated to the Museum a scrapbook that her late husband compiled about his 1974 performance as Jack Ruby.
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