Sharon Calloway Oral History

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Sharon Calloway Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Sharon Calloway. An intern in X-Ray Technology School at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, Ms. Calloway saw the back of President Kennedy's head before he was moved into Trauma Room One. She later worked closely with the Dallas County medical examiner, Dr. Earl Rose, and recalled his feelings about the controversial handling of the president's remains.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 27, 2002 by Gary Mack, Stephen Fagin and Arlinda Abbott. The interview is fifty minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Sharon Calloway Oral History

Date:

01/27/2002

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

50 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2002.001.0003

Curatorial Note:

Ms. Calloway's recollections of President Kennedy differ significantly from those of medical personnel, law enforcement officials, and others at Parkland Memorial Hospital that day. In this oral history, Calloway recalled that the president was dead on arrival and remained on a stretcher in an Emergency Room hallway "for probably about half an hour after he got to the hospital" before his body was taken into Trauma Room One. Virtually all other eyewitness accounts have the president being taken immediately into Trauma One for resuscitation efforts. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Sharon Calloway passed away on December 15, 2014. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Sharon Calloway Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Sharon Calloway. An intern in X-Ray Technology School at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, Ms. Calloway saw the back of President Kennedy's head before he was moved into Trauma Room One. She later worked closely with the Dallas County medical examiner, Dr. Earl Rose, and recalled his feelings about the controversial handling of the president's remains.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on January 27, 2002 by Gary Mack, Stephen Fagin and Arlinda Abbott. The interview is fifty minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Sharon Calloway Oral History

Date:

01/27/2002

Terms:

Trauma Room One

Oral histories

Kennedy, John F.

Rose, Earl F.

Calloway, Sharon

Dallas

Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

50 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2002.001.0003

Curatorial Note:

Ms. Calloway's recollections of President Kennedy differ significantly from those of medical personnel, law enforcement officials, and others at Parkland Memorial Hospital that day. In this oral history, Calloway recalled that the president was dead on arrival and remained on a stretcher in an Emergency Room hallway "for probably about half an hour after he got to the hospital" before his body was taken into Trauma Room One. Virtually all other eyewitness accounts have the president being taken immediately into Trauma One for resuscitation efforts. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Sharon Calloway passed away on December 15, 2014. - Stephen Fagin, Curator