Dwaine Sides and Mel Anderson Oral History

Object number2020.001.0009

Date01/29/2020

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Dwaine Sides

Oral history interview subject Mel Anderson

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)

DimensionsDuration: 78 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dwaine Sides and Mel Anderson. A third grader at Holy Trinity Catholic School in Dallas, Sides observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. In the 1970s, he joined the Dallas Police Department. His sister, Mel Anderson, was a senior at North Dallas High School in 1963. She also observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. Interview recorded at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 29, 2020 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eighteen minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Dwaine Sides visited the Museum to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the assassination in November 2019. When he mentioned to a staff member that he had seen the Kennedy motorcade as a third grader, we immediately invited him back to record an oral history. He and his older sister, who also saw the motorcade, recorded this joint interview in late January 2020, just a few weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic caused The Sixth Floor Museum to close for six months. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator