{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"29885"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Adlene Harrison. The first female mayor of Dallas (1976) and later the first chairman of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (1981-1986), Harrison was the only female member of the City of Dallas Planning Commission in 1963. She and her husband attended the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart on the day of the assassination.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at Ms. Harrison's home on September 10, 2009 by Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator.  The interview is one hour and nine minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2009.001.0072"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Adlene Harrison. The first female mayor of Dallas (1976) and later the first chairman of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (1981-1986), Harrison was the only female member of the City of Dallas Planning Commission in 1963. She and her husband attended the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart on the day of the assassination.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at Ms. Harrison's home on September 10, 2009 by Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator.  The interview is one hour and nine minutes long.\r\n\r\nThe video attached to this record is an excerpt.  The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/73310/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"73310"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Adlene Harrison Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/73310/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Civic leaders","Trade Mart luncheon","Oral histories","Harrison, Adlene","City of Dallas","Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)","Dallas","Community Leaders (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"09/10/2009"},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Adlene Harrison passed away on February 19, 2022. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger","Although historically considered the first female mayor Dallas, Adlene Harrison was not elected to that position. When Mayor Wes Wise (1971-76) resigned from office to run, unsucessfully, for U.S. Congress in 1976, Harrison briefly became the city's acting mayor. By the end of that year, Robert Folsom (1976-81) had been elected mayor. Several years later, with fifty-six percent of the vote, Annette Strauss (1987-91) became the first woman elected to the office of mayor of Dallas. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"63440"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"69 Minutes"}}]}