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Bill Slatter Oral History

Object number2014.001.0166
Date07/14/2014
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Bill Slatter
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.wav file)
Dimensions32 Minutes
DescriptionAudio oral history interview with Bill Slatter. A longtime broadcaster with NBC affiliate WDSU in New Orleans, Slatter interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald on radio and television in August 1963, three months before the assassination. Oswald had gained local media attention after being arrested for scuffling with Cuban exiles while handing out pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans. Ultimately, Oswald paid a $10 for disturbing the peace. Slatter later covered New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison. After a lengthy and highly controversial investigation, in 1969 Garrison unsuccessfully brought local business leader Clay Shaw to trial for being part of a plot to murder President Kennedy. A New Orleans jury found Shaw innocent after less than one hour of deliberations. Interview conducted by telephone on July 14, 2014, by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-two minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Mr. Slatter passed away on April 12, 2015. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
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