{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4559"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Tony Zoppi. The nightclub editor for The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Mr. Zoppi reported events at Parkland Hospital and helped deliver the casket used for President Kennedy. Mr. Zoppi had known Jack Ruby for more than twelve years. He maintained contact with Ruby after the assassination and became good friends with Ruby's flamboyant defense attorney, Melvin Belli.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at Zoppi's apartment on June 1, 1992 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and eight minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"1992.009.0001"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"2 Hi8 video tapes - masters\r\n\r\nVideotaped oral history interview with Tony Zoppi. The nightclub editor for The Dallas Morning News in 1963, Mr. Zoppi reported events at Parkland Hospital and helped deliver the casket used for President Kennedy. Mr. Zoppi had known Jack Ruby for more than twelve years. He maintained contact with Ruby after the assassination and became good friends with Ruby's flamboyant defense attorney, Melvin Belli.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at Zoppi's apartment on June 1, 1992 by Wes Wise and Bob Porter. The interview is one hour and eight minutes long.\r\n\r\nThe video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Hi-8 videotape"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/70803/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"70803"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/7433/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"7433"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Tony Zoppi Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/7433/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Zoppi, Tony","Ruby, Jack","Parkland Hospital","The Dallas Morning News","Dallas","Jack Ruby (OHC)","News Media (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"06/01/1992"},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Mr. Zoppi later donated to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza a loudspeaker that had been installed inside Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Although not directly referenced in this oral history, it is visible in the foreground on Mr. Zoppi's coffee table.\r\n\r\n Tony Zoppi passed away on August 24, 2012. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"63741"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 68 Minutes (4080 Seconds)"}}]}