{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"73589"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Willie H. Minor. Minor turned sixteen years old on the day of the Kennedy funeral in 1963. While attending Prairie View A&M University near Houston, he became active with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and later served in the Vietnam War. A longtime local actor and theater director, Minor portrayed Depository employee Bonnie Ray Williams in Oliver Stone\u2019s JFK (1991). \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 6, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2023.001.0009"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Willie H. Minor. Minor turned sixteen years old on the day of the Kennedy funeral. While attending Prairie View A&M University near Houston, he became active with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and later served in the Vietnam War. A longtime local actor and theater director, Minor portrayed Depository employee Bonnie Ray Williams in Oliver Stone\u2019s JFK (1991). \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX on February 6, 2023 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/73756/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"73756"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/73757/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"73757"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Willie H. Minor Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/73756/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Interviews","Oral histories","Author","Civil rights","Funeral","Vietnam","\"JFK\"","Stone, Oliver","Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)","Dallas","Houston","Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)","Vietnam (OHC)","Popular Culture (OHC)","History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"02/06/2023"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Since 2011, Minor has been a director, actor and instructor at the African American Repertory Theater in Dallas. In addition to his roles in the two Oliver Stone films discussed in this interview, he has also appeared in multiple episodes of the popular television series Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2000), the theatrical comedy Problem Child (1990) and a number of made-for-television movies, including The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65819"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 57 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}