{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"54107"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with John M. Connally. A cousin of Texas Governor John Connally, John M. Connally served as campaign manager for the governor\u2019s brother, Wayne Connally, when he unsuccessfully ran for Texas lieutenant governor in 1972. On the day of the Kennedy assassination, John M. Connally observed the presidential motorcade\u2014and waved at his cousin\u2014on Main Street. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Conservatory retirement home in Plano, Texas on December 14, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirteen minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2017.001.0116"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with John M. Connally. A cousin of Texas Governor John Connally, John M. Connally served as campaign manager for the governor\u2019s brother, Wayne Connally, when he unsuccessfully ran for Texas lieutenant governor in 1972. On the day of the Kennedy assassination, John M. Connally observed the presidential motorcade\u2014and waved at his cousin\u2014on Main Street. \r\n\r\nInterview conducted at The Conservatory retirement home in Plano, Texas on December 14, 2017 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirteen 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/75920/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75920"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75942/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75942"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"John M. Connally Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75920/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Campaign","Motorcade","Main Street","Assassination","Connally, John","Dallas","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Motorcade Spectators (OHC)","White House and State Officials (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"12/14/2017"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["During this 2017 outreach visit to The Conservatory retirement community in Plano, I recorded four oral histories with residents and staff members. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","John M. Connally passed away on December 25, 2020. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","Since 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"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"72426"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 13 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}