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OAK CLIFF ADVOCATE VOL.16 NO.6

EVENTS 6 Things to do in Oak Cliff this month PROFILE 8 ShySpeaks DINING 12 Chan Thai/ Pho 88 FEATURES 16 Practical selfcare for parents 20 Newsreels full of Dallas history 24 Inside the Oswald rooming house COLUMNS 31 Worship

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RENAISSANCE WOMAN Spoken word artist ShySpeaks wants to show people the light Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by YUVIE STYLES

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orn into a tight, talented, musical, churchgoing family, Shy Amos grew up surrounded by song and a spiritual glow that brightened as she discovered her own gifts.

When seemingly opposing internal forces vied for attention and cultivation, she refused to choose a single route and explored both arts and business. She’s a wordsmith who loves math, a rap artist for whom “hot girl summer” refers to the first organized meetings of the suffragettes in July 1848. By embracing duality, she taps into a power and uniqueness that’s driving her career and inspiring other independent artists.

Ten years in, the hip hop and spoken word artist and entrepreneur — known widely as ShySpeaks — has shared stages with famous rappers including Ludacris, Bun B and Jeezy as well as gospel icon Tye Tribett and poet Janette IKZ. And of equal importance in her mind, she just produced a music video with the DeSoto girls basketball team.

Settling into a booth at a Tyler Station coworking space, the South Oak Cliff native tosses back long locks accessorized with a pearly seashell and smiles. In a steady and practiced voice — hand movements punctuating significant words and phrases — she discusses her roots, mission and plans for the future, which include a big event coming to Dallas this month.

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WHAT’S YOUR ORIGIN STORY AS AN ARTIST?

Everyone in my family can play an instrument. We’ll be sitting around and start harmonizing, someone sits down at the piano, that’s us. But that was gospel, blues — no hip hop artists. In Oak Cliff and South Dallas I was exposed to that side of it. I took the positivity, inspiration, love and spirituality from one side and the lyricism from the culture; I realized that my instrument was my voice

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that’s attached to my mind and its ability to string words together. You put all of that together and you have ShySpeaks.

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It was probably in doing this oratorical contest when I was in elementary school.

That helped me develop my stage presence, competence and confidence. Later in my teenage years I started to realize people wanted to listen to me. It could be a game or a party, all of a sudden, not only kids will be listening. The adults will be listening. I remember at a game cheering, “I say this and you say …” and they yell back, and I think, “This is crazy.

A crazy amount of power. A voice can move people to a response.”

BUT YOU DID NOT GO STRAIGHT DOWN THE ARTISTIC PATH, RIGHT?

There was a point after high school when I decided I no longer wanted to be known as Shy who raps and does poetry and plays ball. I wanted to know more of myself, to grow professionally, spiritually, emotionally. To a degree, I set aside the music and poetry and would write only therapeutically, for myself. I started studying engineering, to be a computer engineer. But I realized I don’t really want to only make objects function. I want to be around people. I switched my degree to business with an emphasis on operations management. Then I went back and got a master’s in supply chain management.

Then I went back and got my MBA with an emphasis on entrepreneurship.

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The way we think about artists, we don’t realize that they are a business. That’s one of the things that I want to teach other independent artists — how to set up, organize and operate. I’m working on developing a course called Indie Structure Academy. I want to teach them how to structure the back end of their creativity, so they can be taken more seriously in society.

One event coming up for me is the Civilized Festival, a one-day festival here in Dallas — it’s all about civic duty, racial equity, the culture, the arts. I want to be

the first independent artist in Dallas with their own festival. In doing that festival, I am the operations manager, not just a performer. But I will be performing. Forces that seem opposed — like subtlety and boldness or Shy and Speak — that’s me.

BUT DID YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WERE IN BUSINESS SCHOOL THAT YOU WOULD RETURN TO PERFORMING?

When I was in school I would hum or recite something aloud. One of my friends said, “You have to share that. It would be a shame if you didn’t.” Then another and another person says the same thing.

I did some spoken word sprinkled with a little bit of my artistic, musical side. Then people would come up and ask if I had an album, music online. Being an artist who also is good at math and business is unique and valuable and I started seeing how that was going to open doors.

ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS IS DESCRIBED AS “LEAVES A SOLUTION-ORIENTED TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH.” IS THAT INDICATIVE OF WHAT YOU’RE TRYING TO DO, ON A BROADER SCALE?

Solution-oriented is my thing and even beyond that is inspiration. It’s what people need. People can get enough money, they can have enough things, but there’s not a soul I know that can’t use more inspiration and empowerment. I want to be able to encourage others to speak their voice.

And like embracing all of the different roots — hip hop, gospel, for example — it allows us to have deeper conversations. I feel that hip hop gives you a little bit more room for individual expression. Within church and gospel, it’s often a collective idea being expressed. I think there’s two types of artists — one kind talks about the light, the other shows you what the light helps us see. I see this stuff happening in society, in politics, in the streets, with our infrastructure and in my life, and I get to have these conversations about what the light lets me see.

HOW DID THE VIDEO WITH THE DESOTO LADY EAGLES BASKETBALL TEAM COME TO BE?

I recently released a song called “Wings.”

My inspiration was the WNBA Dallas

Wings. And I did that because I wanted to bring attention to women’s sports. I could have written an anthem for the Mavs, but where’s the attention and fanfare on the WNBA and women? I want to contribute to the conversation around the disparity that we see with women’s sports. But it’s a song anybody can listen to — it’s all about me and my team.

After I wrote it, the Wings were in the pandemic bubble and in the time before I made the music video, my muse came along. My inspiration was the Wings but my muse was the DeSoto girls basketball team. These girls from right next door to Oak Cliff, representing DFW, they won state twice, back to back, they were practically undefeated, they literally don’t lose in Texas, they were televised on ESPN as one of the top teams in the nation, and the coach has won or been nominated for multiple awards. When the South Oak Cliff boys won state, we did it right. Dallas celebrated. I want to see that for girls too.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF FASHION AND YOUR LOOK IN THE SHYSPEAKS PACKAGE?

After my video “Wake Up” came out, I had some fashion brands approach me to be an ambassador because of my style, my music, personality and the way it all works together. Especially when we talk about hip hop, many women are portrayed or portray themselves in very sexual or sensual manner. I believe that everybody’s story matters, but that’s not a true reflection of all women. I think there’s a lot of women whose gift, whose instrument, is her brains. I am a message-driven artist. The message, what I have to offer — that is my power, and so the package and delivery will be free of distractions like graphic words and overt sexuality. I am leading with who I am, my true essence.

Keep up with Shy and learn more about the Civilized Festival, coming June 18, at shyspeaks.com.

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Opposite page: sesame chicken. Above: pho, Shuko salmon, spring rolls and pad thai with shrimp.

N EW PA D, SA M E T H A I Inside Chan Thai/Pho 88’s new West Davis digs Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

THE ORIGINAL CHAN THAI O P E N E D 2 2 Y E A R S AG O i n what was then a little-known corner of Dallas called the Bishop Ar ts District.

Day-one employee Claudia Baez started as a waitress and then managed Chan Thai for 10 years until the original owner was ready to retire.

Baez and her husband, Rogelio, who also started on Chan Thai’s first day in 2000, bought the restaurant

about five years ago. By then, they had added Pho 88, a Vietnamese restaurant within their Thai restaurant.

The Baez family lost their Bishop Arts lease last year, but they got lucky.

A small law firm was moving from its longtime office at 436 W. Davis, and a friend of the Baezes was leasing it.

The building wasn’t a restaurant at the time, but Claudia Baez says she could envision the space for their business.

A two-story pecan tree at one end of the property inspired her.

They spent six months building a kitchen, tearing out metal garages and turning parking spaces into a dining patio. They built an indoor/outdoor bar and retained about 10 on-site parking spaces on West 7th Street.

Claudia and Rogelio, who grew up in Oak Cliff, met as teenagers while working at the bygone Tejano Mexican Restaurant. The former

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Right: Mango margarita and spicy Thai paloma.

owner of Chan Thai was a regular, and she poached them to work at the restaurant she was opening.

Chan Thai/Pho 88 is a family business. Claudia and Rogelia’s son, 24-year-old Alex, is bar manager while enrolled in a political science master’s degree program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Their daughter Jocelyn, 18, works in the front o f t h e h o u s e . A n d s o n Ju n i o r manages the kitchen.

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Little has changed on the menu since the restaurant moved.

Regulars come for the pineapple fried rice ($12), pad thai ($13) and pho ($11-$13), and a few American Chinese entrees such as sesame chicken ($14) are also popular.

Crispy Thai spring rolls come four to an order for $6.50, and steamed summer rolls come two to an order for $8.75.

Reasonable prices and the care that can only come from a family owned and operated restaurant still

set Chan Thai/Pho 88 apart, no matter how many new restaurants come along.

What has changed drastically at Chan Thai/Pho 88 is the atmosphere.

The new space features a socialmedia friendly backdrop with a “ love you pho ever” neon sign. A more prominent bar and sidewalkstyle dining help the owners put a new emphasis on their bar. Popular drinks are a mango margarita and a spicy Thai paloma.

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Prioritizing self-care helps this family business run smoothly Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

WHEN LAURA PATRICK stayed home with one kid, her husband’sjob as culinary director of Abacus worked fine for their family.

But five years later, when they had two more in two years, his hours began to take a toll on her. Besides late nights, the job required Chris Patrick to work every Saturday, no matter what.

“I couldn’t do five nights a week by myself anymore,” Laura says. “It got to a point that it was very stressful for me, and the lifestyle wasn’t fitting anymore.”

The youngest, Isabel, was born in 2019, and that’s when they decided to combine their talents to start a business that would allow their family to be together at night and on the weekends.

Chris, 42, is a culinary genius; Laura, 33, is a digital marketing maven and “a total extrovert.”

They launched Bright Box Foods at the end of 2019. The service provides chef-prepared meals that are delivered to homes. They come refrigerated and can be heated up as needed. It’s not a meal kit, and it’s not Schwann’s.

They found their own niche, providing made-from-scratch meals for busy families who are used to restaurant-quality dinners.

“I was always super entrepreneurial, even as a kid, and always wanted to run my own business,” Laura says.

Their timing was lucky, as the company was just getting off the ground when the pandemic hit, creating unprecedented demand for home-delivered meals.

The early pandemic also created unprecedented anxiety for Laura, like many people.

“Just the stress and anxiety of the pandemic and having the kids home ... it was a bad place for me,” she says. “So I told myself in 2020 that as soon as it was safe to be out again that I was going to make it a priority to get out and start exercising again.”

She joined a gym as soon as she was fully vaccinated.

“Just to feel better and have more energy. I’m not trying to lose weight or anything like that,” she says. “My goals are to help manage stress.”

That led her to a strict regimen of self-care that involves taking time for herself every day, and she says it makes their home and their business more harmonious.

More than two years in, Bright Box Foods is still just the two of them.

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Monday-Thursday are slammed.

The Patricks’ three kids go to three different schools.

“It’s not like I planned it that way,” she says.

The youngest is in pre-K at Casa de Paz Montessori. Finley, 5, goes to kindergarten at “PL Prep,” the Personalized Learning Preparatory School at Sam Houston in Oak Lawn. And 10-year-old Camilla attends Jesús Moroles Expressive Arts Vanguard, the West Dallas campus that was renamed last year for the internationally known artist who was Laura’s uncle.

Between running a business and chauffeuring kids, this is her self-care routine.

Movement

Making time for 30 minutes of exercise every day.

She does high-intensity interval training or Pilates at Edge Fitness five days a week.

Nourishment

Eating foods that are “healthy,” by which she means at least eating something green and some protein every day. “I’m an anti-dieter,” she says. “If you’re trying to work on your mental health, do not go on a diet.” She also appreciates attractive plates and snacky things.

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Coffee

Indulging in a Nespresso machine adds a little happiness to her life. Laura says she starts every day with two shots of espresso, which she drinks in the car while taking kids to school. Sometimes she has a third around 1 p.m. Once, when Laura confessed her coffee addiction, her sister said, “Caffeine is self-care.”

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A friend turned her on to Go Easy, the Bishop Arts boutique that curates products like legal cannabis for a health-conscious clientele. Laura usually eats a CBD chocolate from Go Easy to sleep better. “It’s delicious and actually works,” she says.

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Laura’s extroverted personality means she has to prioritize time with friends. She talks on the phone to her sister daily. “If I don’t have connection with the people that I love, I will notice the difference in my day,” she says. “I will not show up well for my kids, and that’s my No. 1 priority over everything.”

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THE REEL DEAL How SMU film librarians are digitizing Dallas history Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by CORRIE AUNE

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n official YouTube channel from Southern Methodist University delivers daily news on topics such as real estate, schools, City Hall, celebrities and the Dallas Cowboys.

It’s just that these stories are going digital about 50 years after they first aired.

Two guys in a sub-basement beneath the Greer Garson Theater at SMU spend five days a week restoring, digitizing and cataloging film and video archives containing old news stories from WFAA and KERA, plus the odd 16-mm reel that could contain a formatted-for-TV movie, a student orientation film from the 1960s, or often a surprise, since not every old label is correct.

It’s like opening a mystery grab-bag every day.

The vault at the G. William Jones Film and Video Archive, kept at a constant 55 degrees Fahrenheit and low humidity, holds a total of about 5,200 films on 16-mm and 35-mm.

In the vault are fine-grain masters of the TV show Death Valley Days, which ran an astonishing 452 episodes, from 1952-1970; a rare 1926 Alfred Hitchcock feature, The Pleasure Garden, a silent film about chorus girls in London; and the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection, which contains about 14 features entirely directed, produced and acted by Black filmmakers for Black audiences between 1935-1956.

Much of the 35-mm collection consists of “B-movie junk,” anything from cheesy horror to soft-core, with titles such as Disco Godfather and CB Hustlers.

They also have 35-mm versions of Disney’s Pinocchio, Easy Rider and Hard Day’s Night, for example, plus an impressive collection of Italian and French new wave paragons.

“But those are available on BluRay, and anyone can watch them,” says Hamon Arts Library mov-

ing image curator Jeremy Spracklen. “A lot of the stuff we have that you’ve maybe never heard of, we have the only copies. They’re not great movies, but they’re rare.”

The entire archive of the bygone production company best-known for the movie Benji is among the collections.

VINTAGE NEWS

There’s also a history of Dallas told through the lens of TV journalists.

Curator Spracklen and Scott Martin, who has a master’s degree from the SMU film school, upload four items every day: a full roll from exactly 50 years ago, a KERA clip and a WFAA clip, then either another KERA clip or something from another collection.

Their biggest YouTube sensation is a film of Jimi Hendrix arriving at Love Field in April 1969, which has almost 363,000 views. Footage of a 1974 baseball fight between the Texas Rangers and Cleveland has over 166,000 views.

Previously unseen footage of Martin Luther King Jr., uploaded four years ago, and a 1970s profile on journalist Bob Ray Sanders, uncovered this year, are among the team’s favorite finds. And they say this daily time travel can be rewarding.

“We’ve heard from people who say, ‘This is my grandfather, and I’d never heard his voice before,’” Martin says.

Spracklen and Martin have become experts on Dallas history by osmosis.

“It’s cyclical,” Martin says. “And we were dealing with some of the issues in 1970 that we’re dealing with now.”

The KERA, channel 13, archive offers a history of video formats, which arrived neatly organized.

Digitization of that collection began about two years

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WHAT'S IN THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE? Vintage news stories offer a previously unseen history of Dallas.

The G. William Jones Film and Video Archive at SMU digitizes and uploads at least 20 old films and videos from its collection every weekday. These are a few of the gems from our neighborhood.

Housing discrimination The area around Carter High School was “moderately integrated” in March 1974. About 12% of the neighborhood’s residents were Black. In this KERA news story from the time, a real estate agent was accused of “blockbusting,” encouraging white residents to move out of Oak Cliff because racial minorities were moving in.

Shopping on the boulevard This silent footage from WFAA shows what it was like to shop at W.A. Green’s department store on Jefferson Boulevard in December 1961.

Soul of the South A state football title wasn’t needed to prove what Oak Cliff has always known: South Oak Cliff High School is exceptional. Watch this 4-minute clip of the SOC marching band performing in the 1970s.

Little college on the prairie This 1970 KERA TV story on the recently opened Mountain View College reports that a carpenter’s union went on strike and left the building unfinished. Teachers and 1,700 students started the semester in makeshift trailer classrooms. The footage also shows how undeveloped the area was 52 years ago.

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Jeremy Spracklen and Scott Martin are digitizing decades worth of Dallas TV news footage that are part of the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at SMU.

ago. Their stories from the 1970s dive a little deeper into topics like poverty and politics in Dallas.

The WFAA, channel 8, film archives came in cans that were sometimes accurately labeled. Uploads of those have been ongoing since about 2015, and they contain work from former local reporters Tracy Rowlett and Bill O’Reilly.

The vault also holds the KDFW, channel 4, archive.

Those were stored uncarefully and are not well cataloged. The team expects to take years to restore and upload them, a project they haven’t yet begun.

In the first step of digitization, Martin uploads a 16mm film, for example, onto a reel-to-reel device. He feels for the splices and determines if they will hold, or if he needs to restore them.

If not, the archive has a machine that will play the film and digitize it. Martin then works on adding metadata to YouTube as well as the analog film.

The team uploads four items from the collection every day: a full roll from exactly 50 years ago, a KERA clip and a WFAA clip, then either another KERA clip or something from another collection.

IN THE VAULT

Besides moving images, the archive also contains hundreds of original movie posters, most of which were donated by film historian Jeff Gordon, who moved to Dallas shortly before his death in 2020 but had a relationship with the Hamon Arts Library for years prior.

The film and video collection started in 1970 to serve the film school and was named for film collector G. William Jones in 1995.

“It started as a teaching collection for the film school,” Spracklen says. “At the time, they didn’t have DVD; they didn’t have VHS. If you wanted to show a film, to film students, you had to have a print.”

Some came from film exchanges that closed, such as the Tyler Black Film Collection, named for the city where it was found in the 1980s. The Sulphur Springs Collection was donated to the archive in 1993 after someone in that East Texas town found eight reels containing 33 “pre-nickelodeon” films dating from 1898-1906.

The vault also contains a lot of 16-mm reels of un-

known origin that pertain to Dallas history, such as footage of the Velvet Underground performing at White Rock Lake, which they digitized two years ago.

Occasionally the footage makes its way into documentaries, such as the 2021 miniseries The Lady and the Dale.

Their Velvet Underground footage was part of a documentary shown at the Canne and Telluride film festivals.

The USA Film Festival originally started as a mechanism for the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, and films from the collection sometimes show as part of local film festivals and events.

While screenings of the archive’s rare films may be unusual, Spracklen and Martin are eager to publish their digital news archives.

It’s rewarding to uncover footage of big news events and celebrities, but the less glamorous stuff is fun too, Spracklen says.

“It’s the human-interest stories,” he says. “The everyday life that’s happening, and it was being covered in the news.”

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LEE HARVEY OSWALD SLEPT HERE As new construction surrounds it, one Lake Cliff residence is a time capsule glimpse into the man who shot JFK

Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by AZUL SORDO

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n the aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the arrest and killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, reporters descended on Gladys Johnson’s Oak Cliff boarding house, where — under the name O.H. Lee — Oswald rented one of her 18 rooms.

A mourning public was desperate to learn more about the man suspected of killing the president. Maybe the inhabitants of 1026 N. Beckley had answers?

In a TV news package filmed in the days following the assassination, Johnson’s housekeeper Earlene Roberts stands in the living room answering reporters’ questions about Nov. 22. One hand resting on a large box TV set, Roberts says she saw Oswald come in about 1 p.m. the day of the shooting and walk briskly to his bedroom. He came

out wearing an Eisenhower-style jacket and left in a hurry.

The house is still in place today, looking much as it did then. The front porch, paint chipped and crumbling in places, holds a broken bench and some chairs on which few would risk sitting. The screen door through which Oswald came and went hangs on shaky hinges. The only indication of the place’s historical significance is a small yard sign that reads “Oswald Rooming House Museum.”

The owner, Patricia Hall — Johnson’s granddaughter who was 11 in 1963 — began offering tours about nine years ago. She says people were always coming by asking to see the place anyway, and it seemed a good way to make a little extra money.

Visitors can see the living area — set up just as it was

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You can make an appointment to tour the Oswald Rooming House Museum by calling Pat Hall at 469.261.7806.

he was quiet and paid on time, so she had no reason to inspect his property after that.”

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in that interview with Roberts, same TV, same sofa and “ the phone where Oswald talked to (his wife) Marina in Russian,” Hall says. They can also see Oswald’s room, adjacent to the great room, complete with the frame of the bed where Oswald slept (Hall has since changed the mattress, because not doing so “would be creepy,” she says) and the wardrobe that held his light gray jacket (inside she hung a replica, so tourists can see what it looked like).

Hall says Oswald also grabbed a gun from the room as he left. Soon

thereafter, it’s believed he used the gun to shoot Dallas police officer J.D. Tippett a few blocks away.

“My grandmother screened her tenants and checked their belongings when they moved in, and he did not have a gun,” she says. “But he was quiet and paid on time, so she had no reason to inspect his property after that.”

Johnson received death threats m e r e l y f o r b e i n g O s w a l d ’s temporary landlady, so she closed the house to the press and other visitors.

Today’s $30 cost of admission

includes a sit-down with Hall, who answers any questions one can think up about her memory of Oswald.

Tourist Monte Dunaway says he and his small tour group talked to Hall for two hours. “It’s not often you get a chance to touch history so closely,” Dunaway says.

As he points out, there is something about walking in the footsteps of someone who changed the world, for better or worse, that fills one with a curiosity and desire to learn more, which arguably is why historically significant places such as the Oswald boarding house are important.

“History is in our backyards and we encourage the preservation of historic properties, both famous and infamous,” City of Dallas archivist John Slate says.

But with all of the construction in the Lake Cliff neighborhood, it’s no sure thing the house will be here for future generations.

The home to the right is gutted, vacant and undergoing remodeling. To the left is a big old twostory structure. On the other side, the Zang Flats apartment project is under construction.

The Oswald house falls within the Lake Cliff historic district, which means there are certain rules concerning demolition and construction, according to Murray Miller, Dallas’ Office of Preservation director.

Recently a structure in West Dallas that once housed the Barrow family filling station — as in Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow — was demolished, upsetting many preservation-minded residents who had been petitioning for Dallas Landmark Commission protection for the building.

The effort fell apart when COVID hit. The property owner said at a commission meeting that the building should not be celebrated because Clyde Barrow was a murderer.

The Barrow station was not in a historic district, Miller says, so unlike the neighborhood where Hall lives, there was little municipal oversight.

While many no doubt would lament the loss of the Oswald rooming house, others see no need.

“Some things are worth saving and some aren’t, and Oswald was crap,” says Clay Murhtoc, a Dallas resident who has visited the Sixth Floor Museum and Dealey Plaza with out-of-town friends.

“We may never know the whole truth; maybe because of the conspiracy ideas and questions it should stay. But I don’t think most would care. We have the museum Downtown and the grassy knoll, which I think is enough.”

Hall disagrees with that characterization of Oswald and says many of the people she has met would care deeply if her home was destroyed.

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Pat Hall, who was 11 at the time Lee Harvey Oswald lived in her grandmother’s boarding house, shows visitors the living room, which hasn’t changed much since 1963.

She says the reason people come for the tour is that they don’t believe everything in the Warren Commission report, which determined Oswald was President Kennedy’s lone assassin.

“They have their doubts,” she says.

“They want to know the man.”

And she says she can help them do that. She was at her grandmother’s house every day after school, she says, so she recalls frequent interactions with “Mr. Lee.” He helped her with schoolwork and played with her brothers, she says. She remembers him as a kind young man.

She says her interest in the JFK case has intensified with each passing year. Her belie fs line up closely with those of moviemaker O l i ve r S t on e , w ho filme d s ce n e s inside her house for his 1991 thriller

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JFK and who has been outspoken about his beliefs that Oswald was part of a larger conspiracy to kill K e n n e d y. Ha l l s ay s s h e b e l i e v e s Oswald has been unfairly vilified by the U.S. government.

Whether one agrees with Hall’s theories or not, she offers intriguing conversation. For example, she talks about her mother, a photographer who had a studio near Texas Theatre.

“She saw the commotion across the street and saw Oswald — who she knew as her mother’s tenant, who played with her kids — being carried off by police. That’s when she came and pulled my brothers and I out of school,” Hall says. “See, this family’s fingerprints are all over that day.”

Whether or not the Oswald museum remains depends upon the willingness

of someone to take it over eventually, says Hall, who is almost 70. She has two sons but says neither live in Dallas. One of her sons has said definitively that he does not want the house.

“And I am not going to saddle anyone with this who does not have a passion for it,” she says.

Without being specific, she says she has friends and other parties who have expressed interest in taking over.

The fact remains that due to the mortal constraints on every human, time left to hear Pat Hall’s story is limited.

“I love how invested young people are in the history, and I love talking to them,” Hall says. “For as long as I can be, I am here to put a human face on a man I knew as a little girl.”

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Up in the mountain Eve n J es u s n e e d e d so m e a l o n e t i m e

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mmediately he made the disciples get into a boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray.” (Matthew 14: 22-23) Parents never seem to find enough time for themselves. Especially when children are young, a parent’s own self-care often seems to be the one thing that suffers most. Between regularly scheduled activities, illnesses and emergencies, what little spare time young parents have often evaporates amid a mountain of other obligations.

This story from the Gospel of Matthew has always been a favorite of mine. It’s the very end of the famous “Feeding of the Five Thousand” story. To understand just how applicable it is to modern parents, we must start at the beginning.

Jesus has just received word that his cousin, John the Baptist, has been murdered.

Matthew tells us that when Jesus hears this news, “he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself.”

You can hardly blame him. Jesus needs some “alone time,” much as we all do when we are deeply hurt. He needs to come to terms with his own grief.

Unfortunately, the moment Jesus arrives across the lake to this “lonely place,” he discovers that it’s not so lonely after all. The crowds, it seems, followed him. (They apparently have little concept of “healthy boundaries.”)

You might guess Jesus would be angry with them or feel sorry for himself. But that’s not what the text says. Matthew tells us that Jesus “has compassion” for them.

I’ve written to you before about this word “compassion.” The Greek word here —“splagchnizomai”— means to be moved with deep emotion. It’s a visceral, physical reaction of love and sympathy to the pain or suffering of others. It’s the same as that complex wave of feelings you have when a

child needs something, and you would do anything in your power to help them.

That’s what Jesus does. He heals the sick, and eventually feeds more than 5,000 people with a few fish and loaves and bread.

That’s the part of the story we find amazing. And we often stop telling it here. But that’s right when these little verses at the top of this page take place.

After Jesus has responded to the human need, fed the hungry, healed the sick … he sends them away!

He sends his Disciples away too. Then, he looks around to find that he is *finally* alone … finally able to spend the quality self-care time he sought, hours ago. And so, he goes “up the mountain by himself to pray.”

Isn’t this the perfect story for parents?

Try as we might, our child’s needs never fit into neat, pre-programmed schedules.

But we can draw hope and inspiration from the fact that it was like this for Jesus too. Parenting, like Jesus’ ministry, is the art of managing nearly constant “interruptions” from needy “others.”

This doesn’t mean self-care is impossible. But it could mean we’re likely to be frustrated if we expect self-care to follow a rigid routine, every morning at 9:15 a.m.

Maybe we’ll have to carve out time late at night or early in the morning. Flexibility, in ministry and parenting, seems to be key.

By all means, respond with compassion to the needs of your children. That’s what good parents do. But once you’ve met those needs, do the rest of what Jesus did, too.

Send everybody away for a while, and spend some time on self-care. If Jesus can do it, as hard as it might sometimes feel, so can you.

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