/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullJana Laird Phillips Oral History09/25/2013Duration: 30 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.001.01730Audio oral history interview with Jana Laird Phillips. Five years old in 1963, Phillips saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. Her late father, Paul C. Laird, was mayor of Irving, Texas, from 1957 to 1959.
Interview conducted on September 25, 2013 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x 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 Histories652600E-100E-1042721Oral history0E-10Audio oral history interview with Jana Laird Phillips. Five years old in 1963, Phillips saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street. Her late father, Paul C. Laird, was mayor of Irving, Texas, from 1957 to 1959.
Interview conducted by telephone on September 25, 2013 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty minutes long.Oral historiesStudentMotorcadeMain StreetDallasChildhood Recollections (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Community Leaders (OHC)Jana Laird Phillips' late father, Paul C. Laird, served one term as mayor of Irving, Texas from 1957 to 1959. At that time, the community was experiencing significant growth as its population in the 1950s rose from 2,600 to nearly 46,000 thanks to newly annexed adjacent areas and the opening of the University of Dallas and Plymouth Park Shopping Center, one of the largest shopping areas located between Dallas and Fort Worth. Growth would continue in the decade following the Kennedy assassination, with the construction of Texas Stadium in the early 1970s. By 1970, the population of Irving had reached 100,000. - Stephen Fagin, Curator