Alphonse C. Matthews Oral History
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Alphonse C. Matthews Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Alphonse C. Matthews. An employee of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Dallas from 1955 to 1986, Matthews was a switchman at the time of the assassination and recalled communications chaos following the president's death. He also described local segregation and race relations in the 1960s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 25, 2002 by Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.
Alphonse C. Matthews Oral History
09/25/2002
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 46 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2002.001.0036
Some fifteen years after retiring from Southwestern Bell, Matthews came to work in the security department of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This interview was recorded around the one-year anniversary of his employment. I enjoyed working with Al for several years and remember him as a very kind and exceedingly generous gentleman. In this interview, he describes working at the Museum as "really exciting... because it's such an interesting place to work. You meet people from all over the world." Al often chatted with visitors and shared his personal memories of November 22, 1963. We were all very sorry to see Al retire from the Museum in the mid-2000s. He passed away several years later on January 26, 2019. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Alphonse C. Matthews Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Alphonse C. Matthews. An employee of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Dallas from 1955 to 1986, Matthews was a switchman at the time of the assassination and recalled communications chaos following the president's death. He also described local segregation and race relations in the 1960s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 25, 2002 by Arlinda Abbott and Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-seven minutes long.
Alphonse C. Matthews Oral History
09/25/2002
Segregation
Civil rights
Oral histories
Matthews, Alphonse
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
Duration: 46 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2002.001.0036
Some fifteen years after retiring from Southwestern Bell, Matthews came to work in the security department of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This interview was recorded around the one-year anniversary of his employment. I enjoyed working with Al for several years and remember him as a very kind and exceedingly generous gentleman. In this interview, he describes working at the Museum as "really exciting... because it's such an interesting place to work. You meet people from all over the world." Al often chatted with visitors and shared his personal memories of November 22, 1963. We were all very sorry to see Al retire from the Museum in the mid-2000s. He passed away several years later on January 26, 2019. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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