{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4653"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Malcolm Kilduff. Mr. Kilduff was the Assistant White House Press Secretary traveling with President Kennedy in 1963.  He made the official announcement of the president's death at Parkland Hospital.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 16, 1993 by Bob Porter.  The interview is one hour and twenty-six minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"1993.011.0008"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Fuji Hi8 videotape - master"},"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/70814/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"70814"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Malcolm Kilduff Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/70814/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["1.9050000000"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Press conference","Oral histories","Kilduff, Malcolm","Parkland Hospital","White House Press","Dallas"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"04/16/1993"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["10.1600000000"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Three days after this interview was recorded, Malcolm Kilduff joined his friend, former Connally aide Bill Stinson, for a program at the University of Texas at Dallas; the Museum has an audio recording of this program in the Oral History Collection. Six and a half years later, on November 21, 1999, Kilduff participated in his only Sixth Floor Museum program, joining Judge Barefoot Sanders and historian Darwin Payne in conversation with Museum director Jeff West. For reasons unknown, this private \"Legacy\" program for Museum supporters does not appear to have been recorded, making it one of the only Museum programs not included in the Oral History Collection. \r\n\r\nMalcolm Kilduff passed away on March 3, 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","Surprisingly, only one sound recording is known to exist of Kilduff's official announcement of President Kennedy's death.  It's a 16mm black and white news film shot by Bob Welch of WBAP-TV (now KXAS), the NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth.  Welch can be seen in the background of photographs of Kilduff making the announcement, and so can a second microphone.  The identity of the other reporter, and the location of his recording, is unknown. - Gary Mack, Curator","In a second visit to the Museum a few years after giving his oral history, Malcolm Kilduff told me he was angry about conspiracy buffs misrepresenting his actions when giving the official announcement of Kennedy's death.  \r\n\r\nNear the end of his comments, Kilduff pointed to his right temple saying, \"It was a simple matter, Tom [Wicker of the New York Times], of a bullet right through the head,\" attributing the information to Dr. George Burkley, Kennedy's personal physician.  Kilduff was not saying the bullet was fired from in front of the president, he explained; instead, he was merely pointing to where the damage was located.  \r\n\r\nAs Kilduff explained to me, he never saw the president's body and was only passing along what Dr. Burkley told him. Nevertheless, images of Kilduff pointing to his temple often appear as \"proof\" of a second gunman that day. - Gary Mack, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"63751"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"86 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["6.9850000000"]}}]}