{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"48043"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd. A junior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas, Duke-Ruhd and her family observed the presidential motorcade on Lemmon Avenue, where she had a brief verbal exchange with President Kennedy. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 24, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2017.001.0034"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd. A junior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas, Duke-Ruhd and her family observed the presidential motorcade on Lemmon Avenue, where she had a brief verbal exchange with President Kennedy. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 24, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long."},"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/75697/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75697"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75712/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75712"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75697/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Lemmon Avenue","Motorcade","Childhood","Student","Kennedy, John F.","Kennedy, Jacqueline","Huber, Oscar L.","Thomas Jefferson High School","Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church","Dallas","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","Motorcade Spectators (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"03/24/2017"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["I first met Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd, as well as her childhood friend Jan Sittel, when I spoke at a luncheon of the Plano Retired Teachers Association in Plano, Texas in February 2014. Upon learning that Duke-Ruhd and Sittel had both seen President and Mrs. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, I invited them to record oral histories with the Museum. I was honored to recorded one-on-one interviews back to back on March 24, 2017. Jan Sittel's interview, recorded immediately prior to this interview with Betty Duke-Ruhd, may be accessed here: Jan Sittel Oral History \u2013 Search sittel (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. \r\n\r\nSince that time, both Jan Sittel and Betty Duke-Ruhd have become longtime friends of the Museum. Together, they have participated in three public and educational Living History programs at the Museum, recorded in 2018, 2019 and 2025. Our 2019 conversation may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd explains that she yelled out to President Kennedy on Lemmon Avenue because he was distracted by a large group of students from Holy Trinity Catholic School lined up across Lemmon Avenue from her family's location. Dwaine Sides, then a third grader at Holy Trinity, was part of that group. He and his older sister, Mel Anderson, recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2020 which may be viewed here: Dwaine Sides and Mel Anderson Oral History \u2013 Search dwaine (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"72083"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 55 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}