Bill Sloan Oral History

Object number2014.001.0089

Date07/11/2014

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Bill Sloan

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 48 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Bill Sloan. A copy editor at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Sloan wrote a number of stories on the Kennedy assassination in the 1960s. He later became a national tabloid editor and an assassination researcher. His books include "JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness" (1992), co-authored with eyewitness Jean Hill, and "JFK: Breaking the Silence" (1993). His novel about a Kennedy assassination conspiracy, "The Other Assassin," was published in 1989. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 11, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-eight minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Bill Sloan previously recorded an oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum in 2001: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/21286. On the same day as this 2014 interview, Sloan's wife, Lana Henderson Sloan, also recorded an oral history about her experiences as a women's news reporter at the Dallas Times Herald in the 1970s. Bill Sloan passed away on November 10, 2019. - Stephen Fagin, Curator