/internal/media/dispatcher/74075/fullBen Harrison Oral History09/14/2016Duration: 51 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2016.001.00970Videotaped oral history interview with Ben Harrison. Harrison was an FBI agent from 1951 to 1978. During his career, he was part of the Bureau’s Communist squad in the 1950s and helped integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Assigned to Lubbock, Texas, in 1963, Harrison spent three weeks in Dallas to assist with the local assassination investigation.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 14, 2016 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 51 minutes long.
The 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.Oral Histories654630E-100E-1047224Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Ben Harrison. Harrison was an FBI agent from 1951 to 1978. During his career, he was part of the Bureau's Communist squad in the 1950s and helped to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Assigned to the Lubbock, Texas field office in 1963, Harrison spent three weeks in Dallas to assist with the local assassination investigation.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 14, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-one minutes long.Oral historiesCommunismCommunistsCivil rightsInvestigationsFederal Bureau of InvestigationDallasLittle RockCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)Law Enforcement (OHC)Cold War and Communism (OHC)Ben S. Harrison Jr. passed away on September 7, 2022 at the age of 95. - Stephen Fagin, Curator