Jackie Tindel Oral History

Object number2003.001.0014

Date05/14/2003

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Jackie Tindel

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 33 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Jackie Tindel. Standing at the intersection of Harwood and Main Streets in downtown Dallas, Tindel filmed the Kennedy motorcade on November 22, 1963. He later donated both his film and his camera to The Sixth Floor Museum. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on May 14, 2003 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-three minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Jackie Tindel's 8mm home movie of the Kennedy motorcade, donated to the Museum in 2002, may be seen here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/23201. A black and white image taken at the same moment by Dallas Times Herald photographer Darryl Heikes may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3366.

Five years after this oral history, on May 2, 2008, Jackie Tindel returned to the Museum for a daytime gallery talk. That program may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Eyewitness To History: Jackie Tindel (youtube.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator