/internal/media/dispatcher/75005/fullMel Barney Oral History01/08/2014Duration: 57 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2014.001.00020Videotaped 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.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 8, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.
Oral Histories648480E-100E-1042945Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 8, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.
Oral historiesCold WarTrialsJack Ruby trialRuby, JackCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA)Dallas County Criminal Courts BuildingDallasJack Ruby (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Cold War and Communism (OHC)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