Bob Welch Living History Program

Object number2015.001.0061

Date04/18/2015

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Bob Welch

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

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

MediumBorn digital (.mov file)

DimensionsDuration: 55 Minutes

Collections

DescriptionVideotaped Living History program interview with Bob Welch. A reporter and cameraman for Dallas NBC affiliate WBAP-TV, Welch covered the attempted shooting of Major General Edwin Walker in April 1963. On November 22, 1963, Welch was at Dallas Love Field, the Trade Mart and Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he captured the only known sound recording of the announcement of President Kennedy's death. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial. Later, as an NBC News photographer, he covered the Civil Rights Movement and spent six months in Vietnam. Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 18, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The program is fifty-five minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

In addition to this 2015 Living History program, Bob Welch recorded a two-hour oral history interview with the Museum in 1994 (Bob Welch Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org)) as well as a follow-up three-hour video interview in 2015. He passed away the following year on December 19, 2016. - Stephen Fagin, Curator