Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001

Interview with Ethel Reisburg Schectman of Fort Worth, Texas, who was born in New York City during the Great Depression to Jewish Polish immigrant parents. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences of World War II on the home front, including memories of D-Day, iron metal scrap drives, victory gardens, rationing, V-E and V-J Days, and what it was like being Jewish in Dallas during that time.
Date: March 24, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Samson Nalle, April 24, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Samson Nalle, April 24, 1984

Interview with George S. Nalle of Austin, Texas, a long time member of St. David's Episcopal Church and veteran of the United States Air Force. In the interview, George recalls memories of the Air Force, attending church, getting married, and living in the Governor's Mansion.
Date: April 24, 1984
Creator: Dougherty, Mary Ann & Nalle, George Samson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[An airport worker putting cases in the luggage compartment of a plane]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an airport worker putting cases back into the luggage compartment of an aircraft at Love Field after a bomb threat on the afternoon of November 24, 1963. In the background on the other side of the plane passengers' feet can be seen as they board the plane via staircase.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[An airport worker putting cases in the luggage compartment of a plane]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an airport worker putting cases back into the luggage compartment of an aircraft at Love Field after a bomb threat on the afternoon of November 24, 1963. In the background on the other side of the plane passengers can be seen boarding the plane via staircase.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Airport worker searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an airport worker and a Dallas Police officer searching luggage on the tarmac at Love Field after a bomb threat on the afternoon of November 24, 1963. A woman watches them search her bag.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Basket full of items in a car parked at Parkland Hospital]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer, possibly Eamon Kennedy. This image shows a basket filled with two bottles and other household items, possibly for the Oswald children, in the backseat of a car parked at Parkland Hospital on November 24, 1963. A KRLD station wagon is visible in the background.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Basket full of items in a car parked at Parkland Hospital]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer, possibly Eamon Kennedy. This image shows a basket filled with two bottles and other household items, possibly for the Oswald children, in the backseat of a car parked at Parkland Hospital on November 24, 1963. A KRLD station wagon is visible in the background.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Car taking Jack Ruby's sister Eva Grant to the Dallas Police Department]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Jack Ruby's sister Eva Grant seated in a car preparing to leave the Oak Lawn Plaza apartments for the Dallas Police Department headquarters on November 24, 1963. Jim Underwood of Channel 4 is also in the backseat of the car. Channel 4 was the local CBS affilitiate, also known as KRLD-TV. Another man with a camera kneels beside the car filming through the backseat passenger window.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd on Houston Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows some people on Houston Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository. A crowd had gathered outside the Dallas County Sheriff's Department offices on Houston Street on Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, to await the arrival of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald from the city jail. Oswald was shot before the transfer could be completed. This image was taken after news of Oswald's shooting had spread.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[crowd reacting to the news that Lee Harvey Oswald was shot]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows a crowd gathered on Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, on the west side of Houston Street, reacting to the news that suspect Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza. As he was being escorted to the transport vehicle, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd reacting to the news that Lee Harvey Oswald was shot]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows a crowd gathered on Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, on the west side of Houston Street, reacting to the news that suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza. As he was being escorted to the transport vehicle, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd reacting to the news that Lee Harvey Oswald was shot]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows a crowd gathered on Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, on the west side of Houston Street, reacting to the news that suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza. As he was being escorted to the transport vehicle, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd reacting to the news that Lee Harvey Oswald was shot]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows a crowd gathered on Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, on the west side of Houston Street, reacting to the news that suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza. As he was being escorted to the transport vehicle, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. A corner of the Texas School Book Depository is visible on the right edge of the image.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crowd reacting to the news that Lee Harvey Oswald was shot]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows a crowd gathered on Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, on the west side of Houston Street, reacting to the news that suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza. As he was being escorted to the transport vehicle, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Dallas Police detective speaking to Parkland Hospital staff]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows Dallas Police detective Charles W. Brown speaking with hospital staff at Parkland Hospital after the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Dallas Police officer entering Parkland Hospital on November 24, 1963]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows an unidentified Dallas Police officer being filmed as he walks toward the emergency entrance of Parkland Hospital soon after the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Police officers at Parkland after the death of Lee Harvey Oswald]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows Dallas Police officers guarding a doorway at Parkland Hospital after the death of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963. The officer on the left is Weldon E. "Rusty" Robbins.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Police officers at Parkland Hospital on November 24, 1963]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Dallas Police officers in a doorway at Parkland Hospital on Sunday, November 24, 1963. The officer at left holding a shotgun is Weldon E. "Rusty" Robbins. The image is blurry.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Police officers at Parkland Hospital on November 24, 1963]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Dallas Police officers in a doorway at Parkland Hospital on Sunday, November 24, 1963. The officer at left is Weldon E. "Rusty" Robbins. The image is blurry.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Police officers in a hallway at Parkland Hospital]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows a group of Dallas Police officers in a hallway at Parkland Hospital after the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Police Officers in a hallway at Parkland Hospital after Oswald was shot]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows two Dallas Police officers in a hallway at Parkland Hospital after the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Police officers in the hallway at Parkland Hospital]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Dallas Police officers, two of whom carry shotguns, walking down a hallway at Parkland Hospital, followed by reporters on Sunday, November 24, 1963. The officer on the far left is Weldon E. "Rusty" Robbins. The image is blurry.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker awaiting the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker speaking to reporters while awaiting the arrival of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald outside the Sheriff's office on Sunday, November 24, 1963. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker awaiting the arrival of Lee Harvey Oswald]

Original black and white photographic negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker speaking to reporters while awaiting the arrival of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald outside the Sheriff's office on Sunday, November 24, 1963. Oswald was to be transferred from the city jail on the east side of downtown Dallas, to the county jail, which is located on the west side, bordering Dealey Plaza.
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas Times Herald
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History