Steve Roe Oral History
Object number2025.001.0101
Date11/21/2025
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Steve Roe
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
Oral history interviewer
Riley Harris
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 55 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1960s
- Conspiracy theories
- Internet
- Literature
- Donation
- Magazines
- Rifles
- Advertisement
- Evidence
- Author
- Nix film
- 1960s
- Connally, John
- Bush, George H. W.
- Fritz, Will
- Walker, Major General Edwin A.
- Oswald, Lee Harvey
- Ruby, Jack
- Tippit, J.D.
- Parkland Hospital
- Dallas
- Detroit
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Childhood Recollections (OHC)
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Popular Culture (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Steve Roe. Roe was a fourth grader in Dallas in 1963, and his late mother, Margaret Roe, was a part-time nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Steve Roe became a Kennedy assassination researcher in the early 1990s, authoring several articles and contributing to the book, "Pieces of the Puzzle: An Anthology" (2017) by Gayle Nix Jackson.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 21, 2025 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.
Curatorial CommentarySteve Roe previously recorded an oral history by telephone in September 2020. This recording can be accessed on the Museum's online collections database here: Steve Roe Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
Chris Simondent, mentioned in this interview as Mr. Roe's research partner, also recorded an oral history by telephone in March of 2021. His interview explores the research he did with Steve Roe on the advertisement in True Adventures magazine and his research on the "Babushka Lady." The recording can be heard here: Chris Simondet Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
Two articles by researcher Steve Roe including "Motivations & Movements of Lee H. Oswald in Dallas" (2014) and "The Turbulent Years" (2014), can be found on his research blog: Articles By Steve Roe – Historical articles and general ramblings. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger
Articles by researcher Steve Roe may be found, as of spring 2024, on Washington Decoded, a history and research website edited by Max Holland. Roe's articles include "Bombshell or Dud? Earle Cabell's CIA Connections" (2018, Washington Decoded: Bombshell or Dud? Earle Cabell’s CIA Connections) and "The Unfounded Attack on CE399's Chain of Custody" (2022, Washington Decoded). The Museum's Library Collection includes a copy of Pieces of the Puzzle: An Anthology by Gayle Nix Jackson, which includes an essay by Steve Roe: Bibliovation | Details for Pieces of the puzzle. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
