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Dr. David Wallace Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. David Wallace. Traveling with a group of friends from W.W. Samuell High School on November 22, 1963, Wallace saw the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field and again on Stemmons Freeway immediately after the assassination. He then waited for news outside the emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 11, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Dr. David Wallace Oral History

Date:

09/11/2014

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 58 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2014.001.0119

Curatorial Note:

Twenty-five years prior to this video interview, David Wallace was one of the earliest participants in the Museum's Oral History Project. He recorded a brief audio interview during a visit to the newly-opened exhibit in June 1989. It was a pleasure to reconnect with him a quarter century later and also record interviews with three of his high school classmates who were with him on November 22, 1963: Charles Hodges, Will O'Hara and Ronald Cantrell. These interviews helped us solve a longtime photographic mystery as we were able to finally identify a group of previously unknown young men mingling with journalists outside the emergency entrance at Parkland Memorial Hospital and later inside a nurses' classroom for the official announcement of President Kennedy's death. David Wallace, wearing a sweater, can be seen in the background of this Dallas Times Herald photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3446. We shared the story of the "Boys from W.W. Samuell" in images and oral histories as part of a public program commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the assassination on November 22, 2015: Moments & Memories: Reflecting on November 22, 1963 - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Dr. David Wallace Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. David Wallace. Traveling with a group of friends from W.W. Samuell High School on November 22, 1963, Wallace saw the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field and again on Stemmons Freeway immediately after the assassination. He then waited for news outside the emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 11, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-eight minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Dr. David Wallace Oral History

Date:

09/11/2014

Terms:

Oral histories

Student

Stemmons Freeway

Motorcade

Love Field

Parkland Hospital

Dallas

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Love Field Airport (OHC)

Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)

Motorcade Spectators (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 58 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2014.001.0119

Curatorial Note:

Twenty-five years prior to this video interview, David Wallace was one of the earliest participants in the Museum's Oral History Project. He recorded a brief audio interview during a visit to the newly-opened exhibit in June 1989. It was a pleasure to reconnect with him a quarter century later and also record interviews with three of his high school classmates who were with him on November 22, 1963: Charles Hodges, Will O'Hara and Ronald Cantrell. These interviews helped us solve a longtime photographic mystery as we were able to finally identify a group of previously unknown young men mingling with journalists outside the emergency entrance at Parkland Memorial Hospital and later inside a nurses' classroom for the official announcement of President Kennedy's death. David Wallace, wearing a sweater, can be seen in the background of this Dallas Times Herald photograph: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3446. We shared the story of the "Boys from W.W. Samuell" in images and oral histories as part of a public program commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the assassination on November 22, 2015: Moments & Memories: Reflecting on November 22, 1963 - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator