/internal/media/dispatcher/73388/fullBeatrice Saldaña Oral History07/19/2013Duration: 44 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.00820Videotaped oral history interview with Beatrice Saldaña. Part of a close-knit Hispanic community in Dallas, Saldaña worked downtown and saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 19, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.
The 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.Oral Histories6480538392Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Beatrice Saldaña. Part of a close-knit Hispanic community in Dallas, Saldaña worked downtown and saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 19, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.Oral historiesDowntown DallasMotorcadeMain StreetDallasDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Chicano History and Culture (OHC)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