Willie H. Minor Oral History
Object number2023.001.0009
Date02/06/2023
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Willie H. Minor
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 57 Minutes
Terms
- 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)
DescriptionVideotaped 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’s JFK (1991).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 6, 2023 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-seven minutes long.
Curatorial CommentarySince 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
William Allen
11/22/1963