/internal/media/dispatcher/73884/fullDr. Diane Holloway Cheney Oral History08/12/2021Duration: 58 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2021.001.00730Videotaped 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 Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 58 minutes long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file, an isolated Zoom combined audio track, and HD video reference of Stephen Fagin in 501 Elm board room.
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 Histories657970E-100E-1072429Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.AssassinationOral historiesAuthorPsychiatryMedical teamInterviewsJack Ruby trialOswald, Lee HarveyRuby, JackWalker, Major General Edwin A.Parkland HospitalDallasAuthors, 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)Dr. Cheney adapted an original unpublished manuscript by the late Judge Joe B. Brown for her 2001 book, Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial.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