/internal/media/dispatcher/75910/fullNadine Wallentine Oral History09/04/2014Duration: 6 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2014.001.01100Videotaped oral history interview with Nadine Wallentine. Wallentine's daughter observed the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas. Wallentine then informed her daughter of the assassination a short time later.
Interview conducted at Windsor Senior Living retirement community in Dallas on September 4, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is six minutes long.
Oral Histories724160E-100E-1043217Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Nadine Wallentine. Wallentine's daughter observed the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas. Wallentine then informed her daughter of the assassination a short time later.
Interview conducted at Windsor Senior Living retirement community in Dallas on September 4, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is six minutes long.
Oral historiesMotorcadeAssassinationDallasMotorcade Spectators (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Windsor Senior Living, located on Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway approximately eleven miles from downtown Dallas, was originally constructed as a Sheraton high-rise hotel with 500 guest rooms before being converted into a senior living community in 2010. The site, which was briefly renamed Truewood by Merrill, was closed permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. During its fairly brief ten-year existence, I visited Windsor Senior Living on more than one occasion. During this outreach visit in September 2014, I recorded interviews with eight residents. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorNadine Wallentine passed away on August 4, 2020. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorSince 2010, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has actively engaged in community outreach to grow the institution's ongoing Oral History Project. Unlike the one-on-one interviews recorded onsite at the Museum or via Zoom or telephone, community outreach recordings are typically brief, on-the-spot reflections of President Kennedy and the weekend of the assassination that, on average, run between five to fifteen minutes. During a typical outreach visit to a retirement home, church or community center, I give a half-hour presentation about the assassination and the Museum's project and encourage those in attendance to add their voices to this tapestry of living memory. Following the program, somewhat like a doctor's office, I call on volunteers to sit down with me one-on-one, one after another to briefly share their memories. These impromptu recordings have, over the years, uncovered a wealth of untold stories and hidden gems. Among the dozens of everyday memories of hearing about the Kennedy assassination at work, in a restaurant or at school, are a number of Kennedy motorcade spectators, Parkland Hospital personnel, attendees of the Fort Worth breakfast or Dallas Trade Mart luncheon, acquaintances of Jack Ruby, Peace Corps volunteers, civil rights activists and even one local FBI agent, long since retired from the Bureau. It has been an honor to record these and other unique stories related to the life, death and legacy of President Kennedy and the broader history and culture of the 1960s. If you live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and are interested in scheduling an oral history outreach visit for your retirement community or organization, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. - Stephen Fagin, Curator