{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"63123"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped Living History educational program with Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd. Sittel and Duke-Ruhd, both juniors at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas in 1963, saw President and Mrs. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Sittel shook hands with the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field, while Duke-Ruhd observed the presidential motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. \r\n\r\nProgram conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for Alex Sanger Elementary School in Dallas on March 8, 2019. The program, moderated by Stephen Fagin, is fifty-six minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2019.001.0027"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped Living History educational program with Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd. Sittel and Duke-Ruhd, both juniors at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas in 1963, saw President and Mrs. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Sittel shook hands with the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field, while Duke-Ruhd observed the motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. \r\n\r\nProgram conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for Alex Sanger Elementary School in Dallas on March 8, 2019. The program, moderated by Stephen Fagin, is fifty-six minutes long."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.mov file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75703/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"75703"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/75726/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"75726"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd Living History Program"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/75703/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Oral histories","Motorcade","Lemmon Avenue","Childhood","Sign","Confederate flag","Student","Crowds","Funeral","Kennedy, John F.","Huber, Oscar L.","Kennedy, Jacqueline","Love Field","Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church","Thomas Jefferson High School","Dallas","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Love Field Airport (OHC)","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","Motorcade Spectators (OHC)","Kennedy Funeral (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"03/08/2019"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["I first met Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd and 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. \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. This 2019 conversation may also be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Jan Sittel and Dr. Betty Duke-Ruhd. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","The Museum's Jan Sittel Collection (2018.021) includes the cardboard sign that she carried at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963, which was shared during this educational program. The sign may be found here: Handmade cardboard \"All the Way with Jack!\" sign welcoming JFK to Love Field \u2013 Search sittel (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The Jan Sittel Collection also includes the racoon collar coat that she was wearing that day, which was also shared during this program. \r\n\r\nJan Sittel can be seen in several photographs taken at Dallas Love Field, most prominently in this Tom Dillard/Dallas Morning News image: Image of the crowd holding signs and waving flags at Dallas Love Field \u2013 Search love field (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Looking into the camera, Sittel is center left in this image, holding a sign that reads: \"All the way with Jack! Grass Roots Dem.\" \r\n\r\nSittel's one-on-one oral history, recorded in 2017, may be viewed here: Jan Sittel Oral History \u2013 Search sittel (Objects) \u2013 Search \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - 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":"72091"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 58 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}