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Museum Introduces Dealey Plaza Cell Phone Walking Tour
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 Visitors to Dealey
Plaza are now guided through the historic city park and other
important sites related to the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy, thanks to a new cell phone walking tour launched earlier
this month by The Sixth Floor Museum.
Visitors use their own cell phones for the self-directed
tour which is narrated by museum curator Gary Mack and features more
than one dozen stops such as the grassy knoll, John F. Kennedy
Memorial Plaza, the former Dallas County Jail and the statue of George
Bannerman Dealey. The tour begins at the museum and ends atop
the Triple Underpass.
Available for purchase only at the museum, the narrated cell phone
tour and accompanying map include a dedicated telephone number.
Visitors dial the local Dallas number and then pick and choose as
many stops as they like and in any order. Each stop is easily
identified on the map, depicted by individual photographs as well as
marked stops to guide visitors. The tour takes approximately
one hour to complete.
"The cell phone tour provides a wealth of information and is
extremely user friendly," said Nicola Longford, executive
director of The Sixth Floor Museum. "It enables Dallas
visitors and residents alike to learn about this historically
significant area at their own pace."
The tour costs $2.50 if purchased with museum admission or $5 if
bought separately. During the introductory period, either
method gives purchasers a 10% discount in the museum store. For
more information, visit www.jfk.org/go/visit/cell-phone-tour.
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5th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day
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Saturday, September 26 -The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza will participate
in the fifth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian
magazine. A celebration of culture, learning and the dissemination of
knowledge, the event features free museum admission to Smithsonian
magazine readers and Smithsonian.com visitors.
Also, at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m, the museum will sceen
the new documentary film, "Soul of a People," for all
museum guests. Narrated by award-winning actress Patricia
Clarkson, the film uses rarely seen footage, photographs and
interviews with Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, historians, poets and
others to examine the Federal Writers Project, one of four arts
programs under FDR's Works Progress Administration (WPA) which also
helped build Dealey Plaza.
To receive free museum admission, guests must present a
completed Museum Day Admission Card. Each card provides museum
access for two people, and one admission card is permitted per
household. For more information, including listings and links to
other participating museums, visit Smithsonian Magazine Museum
Day.
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Beyond the Victim Monument
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A Free Lecture by Kirk Savage
October 8, 5:30 p.m. - Kirk Savage, professor of art history at the
University of Pittsburgh and author of the new book, Monument Wars:
Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the
Memorial Landscape, will deliver a free lecture co-sponsored by the
Dallas Holocaust Museum, the Art History Department at Southern
Methodist University and The Sixth Floor Museum. This event will be
held in The Sixth Floor Museum's South Gallery (seventh floor).
Dr. Savage will explore the achievements and pitfalls of
the "victim monument," a 20th-century monument type that
has come to rival and perhaps even supplant the hero monuments of
old. With special attention given to the memorial landscape of
Washington, D.C., the talk will examine the origins of the victim
monument, its spread and its implications for the future of
memorialization.
The lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets
are required. For more information, call 214-768-2698; for tickets,
call 214-768-2787.
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Museum Mission
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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza chronicles the
assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy; interprets and
supports the Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark District and the
John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza; and presents contemporary culture
within the context of presidential history.
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