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Dr. Harlan Pollock Oral History

Object number2015.001.0098
Date07/01/2015
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Harlan Pollock
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 41 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. Harlan Pollock. A first-year resident at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, Pollock was upstairs in an operating room when the presidential motorcade arrived following the assassination. That Friday, November 22, was his son's second birthday. Less than two days later, Pollock was part of the anesthesia team during Lee Harvey Oswald's surgery. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 1, 2015 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-one minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Dr. Harlan Pollock passed away on September 30, 2020. Prior to this July 2015 oral history, he recorded an interview with the Museum almost exactly ten years earlier in July 2005. - Stephen Fagin, Curator