{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"32315"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Soundra McDuff. McDuff worked at the Dal-Tex building in Dealey Plaza in the early 1960s. She was traveling to Dallas by bus from Oklahoma City at the time of the assassination. McDuff later recalls participating in local civil rights activities.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at C.C. Young retirement community on April 20, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-five minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2010.001.0031"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Soundra McDuff. McDuff worked at the Dal-Tex building in Dealey Plaza in the early 1960s. She was traveling to Dallas by bus from Oklahoma City at the time of the assassination. McDuff later recalls participating in local civil rights activities.\r\n\r\nInterview conducted at C.C. Young retirement community on April 20, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-five 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/72553/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"72553"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Soundra McDuff Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/72553/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Dealey Plaza","Civil rights","McDuff, Soundra","Dal-Tex Building","Dallas","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"04/20/2010"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["In 2010, I was invited by the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas to speak to three groups of senior citizens who were participating in a cognitive vitality study. After each presentation (April, July and November), I invited seniors to record brief one-on-one oral histories about their memories of President Kennedy and the assassination. This was the first time that the Museum had conducted short, on-the-spot interviews as part of community outreach. These 2010 sessions, during which twenty-five seniors recorded brief interviews, proved to be so successful that the Museum has actively pursued oral history community outreach ever since. Each year, brief interviews are recorded with a wide variety of personalities at retirement homes, churches and community centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If you are interested in scheduling a Museum presentation and oral history outreach in DFW, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. \r\n\r\nMs. McDuff was interviewed as part of the first group of seniors in the UTD study. All interviews were recorded at C.C. Young retirement community in Dallas. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator","Ms. Soundra McDuff passed away on January 15, 2026. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"63927"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 25 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}