Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney Oral History
Object number2021.001.0073
Date08/12/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
DimensionsDuration: 58 Minutes
Terms
- Assassination
- Oral histories
- Author
- Psychiatry
- Medical team
- Interviews
- Jack Ruby trial
- Oswald, Lee Harvey
- Ruby, Jack
- Walker, Major General Edwin A.
- Parkland Hospital
- Dallas
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)
- Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)
- Jack Ruby (OHC)
- Popular Culture (OHC)
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney. As a psychiatric nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Cheney interviewed Major General Edwin Walker for five hours as part of an evaluation in 1962. After developing a research interest in the Kennedy assassination, she wrote and edited several books, including Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial (2001), Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists (2002), The Mind of Oswald (2006) and a novel, I Was a VIP on 11/22/63 (2020).
Interview conducted over Zoom on August 12, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryDr. Cheney adapted an original unpublished manuscript by the late Judge Joe B. Brown for her 2001 book, Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial. Brown's son, the late Judge Joe B. Brown Jr., donated that manuscript as well as all of his father's Ruby trial-related materials to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2004. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
