/internal/media/dispatcher/74973/fullBernard Weissman Oral History04/05/2016Duration: 75 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2016.001.00490Audio-recorded oral history interview with Bernard Weissman. A conservative activist, Weissman briefly lived in Dallas in November 1963. During that time he associated with right-wing organizations, including the John Birch Society, and ultimately co-wrote and signed his name to the black-bordered, anti-Kennedy advertisement published in The Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963. Weissman later testified before the Warren Commission.
Interview conducted on April 5, 2016 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour, 15 minutes long.Oral Histories654590E-100E-1046670Oral history0E-10Audio oral history interview with Bernard Weissman. A conservative activist, Weissman briefly lived in Dallas in November 1963. During that time he associated with right-wing organizations, including the John Birch Society, and ultimately co-wrote and signed his name to the black-bordered anti-Kennedy advertisement published in The Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963. Weissman later testified before the Warren Commission.
Interview conducted via telephone on April 5, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and fifteen minutes long.Oral historiesConservativesExtremistsJohn Birch SocietyThe Dallas Morning NewsWarren CommissionDallasAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)News Media (OHC)In addition to this 2016 phone interview, Mr. Weissman visited Dallas in September 2019 to take part in a short panel discussion at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff following a premiere screening of the Warren Commission documentary, Truth is the Only Client (2019). That half-hour panel may be viewed in full here on the Museum's YouTube channel: "Truth Is The Only Client" Premiere Panel Discussion - YouTube. In addition, the Museum also recorded an oral history with Chuck Altman in 2010. Altman served alongside Weissman in the U.S. Army in the early 1960s, and he shared stories about Weissman's conservative activism while stationed in Germany in 1962. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator