/internal/media/dispatcher/73558/fullAlan Elliott Oral History09/13/2022Duration: 51 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00660Videotaped oral history interview with Alan Elliott. A prolific author of more than twenty-five books, Elliott is co-author of the children’s book, Rescuing JFK (2022), as well as several Oak Cliff and Texas history books. He was attending John Neely Bryan Elementary in Oak Cliff at the time of the assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 13, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is 51 minutes long.Oral Histories657350E-100E-1073420Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Alan Elliott. A prolific author of more than twenty-five books, Elliott is co-author of the children’s book Rescuing JFK (2022), about PT-109, as well as several Oak Cliff and Texas history books. He was attending John Neely Bryan Elementary in Oak Cliff at the time of the assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 13, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-one minutes long.InterviewsOral historiesAuthorChildhoodOak CliffStudentDallasChildhood Recollections (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)In addition to Rescuing JFK (2002), Alan Elliott's books include Oak Cliff (2009, part of the Arcadia Publishing "Images of America" series), Legendary Locals of Oak Cliff (2013) and Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors and Innovators (2016). In addition, as mentioned during this oral history, he is the songwriter of "The Legend of Big Tex" (1981), an unofficial song of the State Fair of Texas. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator