Beatrice Saldaña Oral History

Two years after this interview was recorded, Ms. Saldaña participated in a special exhibit on the Museum's seventh floor, "Portraits: History Lived," a collaboration between the Museum and The Dallas Morning News. She was one of several Dallas residents who took part in an interview and photography session with former Morning News staff photographer Andy Jacobson. This exhibit of modern portraits examined "people on the edges, the minor characters...whose own lives were forever changed by the seminal events of history." Subjects were often photographed at locations significant to their story; for Saldaña, that meant standing on Main Street near the location where she saw the Kennedy motorcade on November 22, 1963. As of fall 2022, an interactive exploration of "Portraits: History Lived" is still available on The Dallas Morning News website: John F. Kennedy Portraits: History Lived (dallasnews.com)  -- Stephen Fagin, Curator