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
Collections
- Dallas Motorcade
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
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 CommentaryDwaine 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
Dwaine Sides was in the third grade at Holy Trinity Catholic School in Dallas at the time of the assasination. The Museum also recorded an oral history with Holy Trinity fifth grader Monica Cochran, which may be viewed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/64295. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
