Sharon Calloway Oral History
Object number2002.001.0003
Date01/27/2002
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Sharon Calloway
Oral history interviewer
Gary Mack
(1946 - 2015)
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
Oral history interviewer
Arlinda Abbott
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
Dimensions50 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Sharon Calloway. An intern in X-Ray Technology School at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, Ms. Calloway saw the back of President Kennedy's head before he was moved into Trauma Room One. She later worked closely with the Dallas County medical examiner, Dr. Earl Rose, and recalled his feelings about the controversial handling of the president's remains.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 27, 2002 by Gary Mack, Stephen Fagin and Arlinda Abbott. The interview is fifty minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryMs. Calloway's recollections of President Kennedy differ significantly from those of medical personnel, law enforcement officials, and others at Parkland Memorial Hospital that day. In this oral history, Calloway recalled that the president was dead on arrival and remained on a stretcher in an Emergency Room hallway "for probably about half an hour after he got to the hospital" before his body was taken into Trauma Room One. Virtually all other eyewitness accounts have the president being taken immediately into Trauma One for resuscitation efforts. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Sharon Calloway passed away on December 15, 2014. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
