Living History with Dr. Darwin Payne | 2023 

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented an interview with Dr. Darwin Payne, professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University. As a reporter at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Payne interviewed Abraham Zapruder 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. Payne is the author of several books about Dallas history, including Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination (2023). The program, moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin, took place at the Museum on November 17, 2023. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org).