{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"74571"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Bob Jackson. A staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Jackson covered the presidential party\u2019s arrival at Dallas Love Field and, while riding in a motorcade press car, spotted a rifle in a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. He was also at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas police headquarters that day. On Sunday, November 24, 1963, Jackson captured an iconic photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. His image won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in News Photography. Jackson later covered the Jack Ruby trial in Dallas.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 18, 2025 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is two hours and seven minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2025.001.0021"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Bob Jackson. A staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Jackson covered the presidential party\u2019s arrival at Dallas Love Field and, while riding in a motorcade press car, spotted a rifle in a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. He was also at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas police headquarters that day. On Sunday, November 24, 1963, Jackson captured an iconic photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. His image won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in News Photography. Jackson later covered the Jack Ruby trial in Dallas.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 18, 2025 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is two hours and 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/78066/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"78066"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/78137/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"78137"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Bob Jackson Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/78137/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Donation","Photographs","Photographer","Legacy","Cameras","1960s","Desegregation","Reporter","Funeral","Graveside","Motorcade","Trade Mart luncheon","Newspapers","Assassination","Rifles","Police","Triple underpass","Grassy knoll","Arrest","Jack Ruby trial","Trials","Conspiracy theories","Press","Ruby, Jack","Mazziotta, John","Kennedy, John F.","Dillard, Tom C.","Couch, Malcom","Darnell, Jimmy","Featherston, Jim","Oswald, Marina","Oswald, Marguerite","Leavelle, Jim","Kennedy, Eamon","Oswald, Lee Harvey","Jackson, Bob","The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza","Dallas Times Herald","Love Field","Parkland Hospital","Texas School Book Depository","Dallas Police Department","United Press International (UPI)","Warren Commission","Dallas","Colorado","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)","Love Field Airport (OHC)","News Media (OHC)","Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)","Jack Ruby (OHC)","Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"03/18/2025"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Bob Jackson's official listing as a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964 may be accessed here on the Pulitzer website: Robert H. Jackson of Dallas Times-Herald - The Pulitzer Prizes. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","Bob Jackson is a long-time friend of the museum and has participated in many public programs such as living histories and panel discussions. These recordings can be watched on the Museum's YouTube channel here: SixthFloorMuseum - YouTube. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger","The Museum's Collection includes the Dallas Times Herald newspaper from Monday, November 25, 1963, with Bob Jackson's photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on the front page. An image of that front page may be found here in the Museum's online collections database: Dallas Times Herald newspaper with a cover story about the Ruby-Oswald shooting \u2013 Works \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger","This oral history was recorded when Bob and his wife, Debbie, visited Dallas in March 2025. At that time, Bob made a transformative gift to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, donating his collection of photographic negatives, slides and prints covering his career as a staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald from 1960 to 1978. The single largest photographic donation in the Museum's history, the Bob Jackson Collection provides an unprecedented visual exploration of the history and culture of Dallas during an important era of growth and transition. Bob's photography includes social activism, hard news, human interest, local sites, entertainment, sports, automotive, fashion and society, as well as visits by celebrities and dignitaries, including multiple U.S. presidents, John Wayne, Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, and the Beatles. The Bob Jackson Collection totals more than 20,000 images and also includes 20 issues of the local publication Society Section, co-founded by Bob Jackson; cameras and photographic equipment; press badges and related ephemera; Jackson's Pulitzer Prize certificate; Jackson's subpoenas for the 1964 Jack Ruby trial; and a series of scrapbooks created by Bob's late mother to document her son's illustrious career. We are so honored to have the Bob Jackson Collection at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and very fortunate to consider Bob and Debbie Jackson great friends of our institution. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"73075"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 127 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}