{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"42945"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Mel Barney. A longtime engineer with Texas Instruments, Barney worked with the CIA on a number of high-level security projects during the Cold War. An acquaintance of Jack Ruby, he recalls that Ruby participated in two top-secret flights in 1961. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 8, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2014.001.0002"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Mel Barney. A longtime engineer with Texas Instruments, Barney worked with the CIA on a number of high-level security projects during the Cold War. An acquaintance of Jack Ruby, he recalls that Ruby participated in two top-secret flights in 1961. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 8, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75005/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75005"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75022/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75022"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Mel Barney Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75005/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Cold War","Trials","Jack Ruby trial","Ruby, Jack","Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)","Dallas County Criminal Courts Building","Dallas","Jack Ruby (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)","Cold War and Communism (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"01/08/2014"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["George Melvin \"Mel\" Barney passed away on August 3, 2023 at the age of 95. As discussed in this oral history, he authored two books, Four Wars (2011) and Socialism vs. Capitalism (2013). The Museum has a copy of the former in its Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for Four wars. Four Wars includes his recollections of Jack Ruby. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"64848"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 57 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}