Kaspar deLine Oral History

Object number2022.001.0081

Date11/17/2022

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Kaspar deLine

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 62 Minutes

Collections

DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Kaspar deLine. Born on November 22, 1962, deLine became interested in the Kennedy assassination after seeing Oliver Stone’s film, "JFK" (1991). He is art director and publisher of the book, "JFK Assassination Portraits" (2023), a ten-year project which collected new photographic portraits of eyewitnesses, motorcade spectators and assassination authors and researchers. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 17, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and two minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

The 2023 coffee table photographic book, JFK Assassination Portraits: The Last Living Eyewitnesses Speak Out by Kaspar deLine (art director) and Rob Waymen (photographer), includes approximately 90 photographs depicting nearly sixty eyewitnesses, including motorcade spectators, Parkland Hospital personnel, performers at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club and Dealey Plaza assassination eyewitnesses. The book also features more than thirty Kennedy assassination authors and researchers. The book includes portraits of a number of individuals who have recorded oral histories with The Sixth Floor Museum over the years, including Jim Leavelle, Pierce Allman, Hugh Aynesworth, Bill and Gaye Newman and their children, James Tague, Buell Wesley Frazier, Tina Towner Pender, Nancy Myers (aka Tammi True), Joy Dale, and Dr. Robert McClelland. - Stephen Fagin, Curator