Living History with Dr. Darwin Payne

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented an interview with Dr. Darwin Payne as a Living History education program, connected online via Distance Learning to students at Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana. A reporter for the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Payne was in Abraham Zapruder's office shortly after the assassination and covered the events of that weekend, visiting the Texas School Book Depository and Oswald's rooming house in Oak Cliff. A prominent Dallas historian, Payne is now professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University. The program was moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin.

This presentation took place at the Museum on May 23, 2016. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (http://emuseum.jfk.org). Or make a research appointment to explore the books, DVDs and other materials available in the Museum's Reading Room (http://www.jfk.org/go/reading-room).