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Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses Books - Articles - Videos - Collections - Oral Histories - Websites Visit our Library Catalog for complete list of books, magazines, and videos. Related subject terms: Assassination Records Review Board, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Personal Narratives, Texas School Book Depository, Warren Commission, Witnesses Books Brennan, Howard L. Eyewitness to History: The Kennedy Assassination as Seen by Howard L. Brennan. Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1987. Connally, John B. In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey. New York: Hyperion, 1993. Connally, Nellie. From Love Field: Our Final Hours with President John F. Kennedy. New York: Rugged Land, 2003. Curry, Jesse E. Retired Dallas Police Chief, Jesse Curry, Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File. Dallas: 1969. Hampton, Wilborn. Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997. Hlavach, Laura. Reporting the Kennedy Assassination: Journalists Who Were There Recall Their Experiences. Dallas, TX: Three Forks Press, 1996. Sneed, Larry A. No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002. The Witnesses; The Highlights of Hearings Before the Warren Commission o the Assassination of President Kennedy. New York: Bantam Books, 1964. Trask, Richard B. That Day in Dallas: Three Photographers Capture on Film the Day President Kennedy Died. Danvers, Mass.: Yeoman Press, 1998. United States. House of Representatives. Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session. 95th Congress, 2nd sess. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978. [Available online at http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/docset/getList.do?docSetId=1001] United States. House of Representatives. Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session : Findings and Recommendations. 95th Congress, 2nd sess. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. [Available online at http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/] United States. The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Investigation of The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Hearings Before The President's Commission On The Assassination of President Kennedy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. [Available online at http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/docset/getList.do?docSetId=1000] United States. The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. [Available online at http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/] back to top Articles Connally, John. "Why Kennedy Went to Texas." LIFE 24 Nov. 1967. Smith, Merriman. "U.P.I. Reporter [Eyewitness Account]." Editor & Publisher 30 Nov. 1963. Online. Swartz, Mimi. "The Witness." Texas Monthly Nov. 2003. Towner, Tina. "View From the Corner." Teen June 1968: 46-49, 90. "The Witnesses." Texas Monthly Nov. 1998. back to top Videos Films From The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza: John F. Kennedy and The Memory Of A Nation. Dallas, Tex.: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, 2003. Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film. MPI Home Video, 1998. JFK, Breaking The News. Dallas, Tex.: KERA-Dallas/Fort Worth and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, 2003. DVD. Missing Files the JFK Assassination. New York: A&E Television Networks, 2004. back to top Collections For more information about the Museum's collections, visit www.jfk.org/go/collections. Elsie Dorman Collection Object numbers: 1995.020.0001-1995.020.0005 Description: The Elsie Dorman 8mm color home movie is the only known imagery of the presidential motorcade taken from the Texas School Book Depository building. The reel begins with TSFM Resource Guide: Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses - Updated 5/23/2011- Page 2 Elsie Dorman stepping off a bus near her home in suburban Oak Cliff. Next is the Kennedy motorcade entering Dealey Plaza as seen from Dorman's office on the fourth floor of the Depository. The short sequences, which she filmed because her husband was unable to be there, show the limousine approaching the Depository and turning onto Elm Street. Dorman held the camera next to her face and didn't point it directly at the Kennedys, so most of her film shows just the crowd before, during, and immediately after the shots were fired. At home, her husband filmed some of the Kennedy funeral scenes on their TV screen and then finished the reel by filming the neighborhood outside their house. Available online: 1995.020.0001 Margaret Taylor Collection Object numbers: 2004.041.0001-2004.041.0010 Description: Ten journal pages written by June Dishong after she witnessed the assassination of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza. Some who witnessed the assassination quickly put their observations on paper to either remember or to share with family members or friends; some accounts, like this personal diary, went into great detail. Available online: 2004.041.0001 Nix Collection Object number: 2000.001 Description: The Orville Nix home movie of the Kennedy assassination was taken from near the corner of Main & Houston streets nearly a block away from the site of the assassination. It begins with the Kennedy limousine moving north on Houston Street toward the Texas School Book Depository, then the fatal shot to Kennedy's head on Elm Street. The “grassy knoll” is in the background as Jackie Kennedy climbs onto the trunk to be met by Secret Service agent Clint Hill. Photographer Abraham Zapruder appears on top of a white pedestal farther back from the street. A third sequence, about 30 seconds later, shows bystanders running to the scene. Nix returned the next morning and filmed the same general area. Eight days later, he and his son finished the film reel by filming a family member – the majorette – at a high school football game in Fort Worth, Texas. Overview and timeline of the film can be found at http://www.jfk.org/go/collections/about/orville-nix-film-interview. Available online: 2000.001 Robert J.E. Hughes Collection Object number: 2002.026.0001 Description: The Robert Hughes 8mm color film is the only home movie known to include a view of the assassin's window of the Texas School Book Depository when President Kennedy was in Dealey Plaza. Unfortunately, because Mr. Hughes filmed from a block away, the moving shape in the window cannot be identified. After filming the presidential motorcade until just a few seconds before the first shot, Hughes filmed some of the aftermath and the search for suspects in a railroad yard and outside the Book Depository building. Available online: 2002.026.0001 Zapruder Collection Object number: 1999.042 Description: The Abraham Zapruder film is acknowledged to be the definitive view of the death of President Kennedy, for it is the only known movie showing the entire assassination sequence. Experts still debate over exactly what it does show and what is not clearly revealed. The film reel begins with family scenes of Zapruder’s grandchildren, then shows TSFM Resource Guide: Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses - Updated 5/23/2011- Page 3 his office assistant, Lillian Rogers, at her desk the morning of the assassination. After filming two of his coworkers in Dealey Plaza, Zapruder filmed the approaching motorcade from a pedestal above and to the right of the parade route. A U.S. Congressional committee confiscated the original film from the Zapruder family in 1997; after being compensated by the U.S. government, the family donated copies of the film and color transparencies of each frame, as well as the film’s copyright, to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 1999. More information about the Zapruder film including a time line and Abraham Zapruder's interview transcript can be found at http://www.jfk.org/go/collections/about/. Available online: 1999.042 Video of Abraham Zapruder's interview with WFAA-TV program director, Jay Watson. back to top Oral Histories For more information about the Oral History Collection, visit http://www.jfk.org/go/collections/oral-histories Gordon Arnold An admitted eyewitness to the assassination, Arnold did not come forward until 1978. He was reportedly standing on the grassy knoll and fell to the ground when shots were fired. He also claimed to have encountered a man wearing a Dallas police officer uniform. Recorded June 5, 1989. Records for this Oral History: 06/05/1989 Mary and Les Arnold The widow and son of controversial assassination eyewitness Gordon Arnold, the Arnolds share their thoughts and memories of his life and experiences, including his reluctance to share his story of the president's shooting. Recorded January 13, 2006. Ann Atterberry A reporter for the Dallas Morning News in 1963, Atterberry was standing along Elm Street and witnessed the assassination. She can be seen in the Zapruder film. Recorded November 10, 2003. Hugh Aynesworth A science and aviation reporter for the Dallas Morning News, Aynesworth was the only reporter to be present at all of the major moments that occured during the weekend of November 22, 1963: the president's assassination, the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby. In the years since, he has become a recognized authority on the assassination. Recorded July 28, 1994, November 19, 1998, and April 18 and November 19, 2007. Mark Bell Bell was an eyewitness to the assassination. His memories were briefly recorded as part of a group interview with Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses. Recorded November 22, 1996. Mary Sue Bennett TSFM Resource Guide: Dealey Plaza Eyewitnesses - Updated 5/23/2011- Page 4 A twenty-two-year employee with Allyn and Bacon publishing company, Bennett was working on the third floor of the Texas School Book Depository in 1963.