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"Oswald Has Been Shot!" Program

Object number2012.001.0098
Date11/10/2012
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Gary DeLaune
Oral history interview subject Robert Huffaker
Oral history interview subject Bob Jackson
Oral history interview subject James R. Leavelle
Oral history interview subject Fred Rheinstein
Oral history interviewer Gloria Campos
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 83 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped panel discussion program entitled "Oswald Has Been Shot!" Panelists included retired Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle, KRLD-TV broadcaster Bob Huffaker, NBC News producer/director Fred Rheinstein, KLIF Radio reporter Gary DeLaune and Dallas Times Herald photographer Bob Jackson. The conversation was moderated by WFAA-TV broadcaster Gloria Campos. Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 10, 2012. The program is one hour and twenty-three minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary

All of the panelists featured here recorded one or more one-on-one oral histories with the Museum. As of spring 2024, Bob Jackson is the only panelist still living.

Jim Leavelle participated in a number of interviews and programs at the Museum over the years, including a two-hour oral history in 2002 (James Leavelle Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org)), a 2007 program with KRLD-TV news director Eddie Barker (A Conversation with Jim Leavelle and Eddie Barker (youtube.com)) and a 2008 Living History public program (Living History with James "Jim" Leavelle (youtube.com)). He passed away on August 29, 2019 at the age of 99.

Bob Huffaker's three-hour 1994 oral history may be accessed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/4792. He also participated in a record thirteen Museum public and educational programs over the years, including multiple panel discussions with the co-authors of his 2004 book, When the News Went Live. A 2007 conversation may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/26384. Another panel discussion, recorded in October 2013, is on the Museum's YouTube channel: When The News Went Live: Author Panel Discussion (2013) - YouTube. He passed away on June 25, 2018.

Fred Rheinstein recorded oral histories with the Museum in 2010 and 2012. He passed away on December 22, 2013.

Gary DeLaune's 1998 oral history may be accessed here: Gary DeLaune Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org). He recorded a follow-up interview in 2012 and passed away ten years later on February 6, 2022.

Bob Jackson's 1993 oral history may be accessed here: Bob Jackson Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org). He has also participated in ten public and educational programs at the Museum over the years, including a 2009 Living History program (Living History with Bob Jackson (youtube.com)) and most recently a 2016 panel discussion with fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers (Illusion & Disillusion: A Panel Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographers (youtube.com)).

Gloria Campos, the first Hispanic permanent anchor of a weekday Dallas/Fort Worth news broadcast, retired from WFAA-TV in 2014 after a thirty-year career. In addition to moderating this 2012 panel discussion, she narrated a 2005 video, "Covering Chaos," as part of a special exhibit at The Sixth Floor Museum that explored media coverage of the Kennedy assassination. That six-minute video may be found here: Covering Chaos: Reporting the JFK Assassination - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator