{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"32309"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Thomas N. Smith. Fourteen years old in 1963, Smith saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. In 1964, he attended one day of the Jack Ruby trial. The letter he wrote to Jackie Kennedy on November 23, 1963, was later selected for publication in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, \"Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation\" (2010).\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 9, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and six minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2010.001.0025"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Thomas N. Smith. Fourteen years old in 1963, Smith saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. In 1964, he attended one day of the Jack Ruby trial. The letter he wrote to Jackie Kennedy on November 23, 1963, was later selected for publication in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, \"Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation\" (2010).\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on April 9, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and six minutes long."},"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/75369/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75369"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75370/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75370"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Thomas N. Smith Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75369/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Student","Motorcade","Jack Ruby trial","Letters","Limousine","Witnesses","Motorcycles","Dealey Plaza","Assassination","Main Street","Smith, Thomas N.","Kennedy, Jacqueline","Kennedy, John F.","Fitzpatrick, Ellen","Ruby, Jack","Dallas","Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","Motorcade Spectators (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"04/09/2010"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick's book, Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (2010), may be found here in the Museum's Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for Letters to Jackie. Dr. Fitzpatrick participated in a public program at the Museum in 2010, which may be viewed here on the Museum's YouTube channel: Letters To Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (youtube.com). \r\n\r\nOver the years, the Museum has recorded oral histories with more than a dozen individuals whose condolence letters were selected for publication in the book. In addition to this interview with Thomas N. Smith, an interview with Jane Dryden Louis - who wrote more than two dozen letters to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination - may be found here: Jane Dryden Louis Oral History \u2013 Works \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (jfk.org). - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"63451"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 66 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}