{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"43196"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Betty Jo Standridge. While attending a PTA state convention, Standridge saw the Kennedys in San Antonio on November 21, 1963. Standridge was also longtime friends with Dallas residents John and Estelle Sissom, who owned and operated the John F. Kennedy Museum at 501 Elm Street, across from the Texas School Book Depository, from 1970 to 1982. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Tradition - Prestonwood retirement community in Dallas on August 11, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is twenty-nine minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2014.001.0102"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Betty Jo Standridge. Standridge saw the Kennedys in San Antonio on November 21, 1963. She was longtime friends with Dallas residents John and Estelle Sissom, who owned and operated the John F. Kennedy Museum at 501 Elm Street from 1970 to 1982. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at [location] on August 11, 2014 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x 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/74226/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"74226"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/74230/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"74230"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Betty Jo Standridge Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/74226/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","San Antonio","Trip to Texas","Sissom, John E.","John F. Kennedy Museum (Dallas)","Dallas","San Antonio","History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Popular Culture (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"08/11/2014"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Betty Jo Standridge passed away on February 9, 2024. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger","In addition to Ms. Standridge, the Museum recorded oral histories with three others who attended the same PTA state convention and observed the Kennedy motorcade in San Antonio: Clara Hoffman, Ina B. King and Marjorie Stipes. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","The John F. Kennedy Museum, located in the former Dal-Tex building, was open from 1970 to 1982.  Owners John and Estelle Sissom of Dallas created what was briefly one of the city's leading tourist attractions.  The centerpiece of the display was a multimedia presentation entitled \"The Incredible Hours.\"  In this presentation, a series of lights would follow the path of the Kennedy motorcade through a detailed model of Dealey Plaza and downtown Dallas. \"The Incredible Hours\" also utilized narration, music, and slide projectors. To learn more about the history of the John F. Kennedy Museum, see this 2015 presentation on Kennedy memorialization in Dallas: Legacies 2015: Kennedy Memorialization in Dallas - YouTube, and this article in Legacies Dallas History Journal: Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2015 - Page 24 of 67 - The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu). - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65594"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 29 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}