Research Catalog

Title

Lee Harvey Oswald speaks [sound recording].

Author

Oswald, Lee Harvey.

Publication

1967.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Stuckey, William K.
• WDSU-TV (Television station : New Orleans, La.)
• Estate of Jerome Robbins. dnr

Found In

Jerome Robbins Collection

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 37 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

William Stuckey interviews Lee Harvey Oswald about his work with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee [FPCC] in New Orleans. Shortly before this interview, Oswald had been arrested following a dispute while he was passing out leaflets for the organization. In this interview, part of a series on the Latin Listening Post program with people involved in the conflict over the Cuban revolution, Oswald discusses the purpose of the FPCC, a pro-Castro group; his role as secretary of the group; the organization's relationship to communism, and his own feelings about communism; his views on Castro; newspaper coverage of Cuba; comparisons between Cuba and other Latin American nations; the influx of Cuban refugees in the U.S. Lastly, Oswald speaks about his personal background.

Alternative Title

• Interview with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, August 17, 1963.
• Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Subjects

• Robbins, Jerome
• Cuba > Relations > United States
• Audiotapes > Oswald, L
• Fair Play for Cuba Committee
• Cuba > Politics and government > 1959-1990

Note

• Audio recording of an interview with Lee Harvey Oswald conducted by William Stuckey on WDSU-TV Aug. 17, 1963; reissued by Truth Records in 1967, with a spoken introduction explaining the purpose of reissuing the recording as a historical document.
• Title from original container. Alternate title is the release title for the record from which this recording was made.
• Sound quality is good.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Source (note)

• Estate of Jerome Robbins

Biography (note)

• In 1968, Jerome Robbins and the members of the American Theatre Laboratory developed and rehearsed a theater piece about President Kennedy's assassination. The script, begun by Tom Stone and further developed by John Guare, was adapted from the Warren Commission Report, and the staging was influenced by Japanese Noh drama. American Theatre Laboratory was created in 1966 by Jerome Robbins, with a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The experimental theater workshop rehearsed several projects but did not produce any shows. American Theatre Laboratory disbanded in 1968.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2845 JRC

OCLC

772467925

Author

Oswald, Lee Harvey. Interviewee

Title

Lee Harvey Oswald speaks [sound recording].

Imprint

1967.

Original Version

Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 37 min.; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 2 channels). Originally recorded in 1967.

Funding

Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Biography

In 1968, Jerome Robbins and the members of the American Theatre Laboratory developed and rehearsed a theater piece about President Kennedy's assassination. The script, begun by Tom Stone and further developed by John Guare, was adapted from the Warren Commission Report, and the staging was influenced by Japanese Noh drama. American Theatre Laboratory was created in 1966 by Jerome Robbins, with a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The experimental theater workshop rehearsed several projects but did not produce any shows. American Theatre Laboratory disbanded in 1968.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-2845 JRC

Source

Gift; Estate of Jerome Robbins, 1999. NN-PD

Added Author

Stuckey, William K. Interviewer

WDSU-TV (Television station : New Orleans, La.)

Estate of Jerome Robbins. Donor

Added Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Found In:

Jerome Robbins Collection

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2845 JRC