Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

January 2, 1960

JFK ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States.

Listen to an excerpt from the oral history interview with Jacques Lowe, the Kennedys' personal photographer for many years, by clicking "Find out more."

Image: Kennedy's presidential campaign button features his face on a background of red, white and blue stripes.

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A Conversation with Journalist Marvin Scott

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

  Courtesy Marvin Scott Join the Museum for a special conversation between journalist Marvin Scott and curator Stephen Fagin. Scott has had a remarkable 60 year-long career. The winner of 12 Emmy Awards, he is currently the senior correspondent at New York's WPIX-TV. Among other notable achievements, he recorded a significant interview with Abraham Zapruder in 1966 about his famous film.

FREE

JFK: The Last Speech | Special performance by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Courtesy Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Kennedy Convocation Collection, Photograph 18. Friday, Oct. 6 | 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 | 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 | 3:00 p.m.    Join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a performance of a new work that honors President Kennedy upon the 60th anniversary of his passing. Inspired …

Home Movie Day

Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, United States

Join the Museum and the Dallas Municipal Archives at the Texas Theatre to celebrate Home Movie Day. Long before phone cameras and social media, people had to use film and videotape to document their lives. This free event celebrates the importance of saving and preserving home movies and home video.   If you have an interesting …

FREE

Watch Now: Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin and Gerald Posner

Join in for a special virtual program! Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill, and Gerald Posner will mark the upcoming 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with a virtual discussion. They’ll answer select questions from the public about the assassination and more.

Echoes From a Memory performance

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Echoes From a Memory Saturday, November 18 | 7:30 p.m. $35 public $30 member   The Museum has commissioned local composer, Jesus J. Martinez, to create a new piece of music that draws from the Museum’s Oral History collection, as well as historic films and photographs from the Museum’s collections and other sources, to creatively reinterpret …

$35

Echoes From a Memory Performance

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Echoes From a Memory Saturday, November 18 | 7:30 p.m. $35 public $30 member   The Museum has commissioned local composer, Jesus J. Martinez, to create a new piece of music that draws from the Museum’s Oral History collection, as well as historic films and photographs from the Museum’s collections and other sources, to creatively reinterpret …

$35

To Shape A City: Dallas After JFK

Thanksgiving Square 1627 Pacific Avenue, Dallas, United States

explore a few of the more significant interventions that took place in Dallas over the decade following the assassination: the "Goals For Dallas" planning process, spearheaded by Mayor Erik Jonsson; and the establishment of The Thanks-Giving Foundation and subsequent construction of Thanks-Giving Square, designed by architect Philip Johnson.

$20

Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin with Author Danny Fingeroth

Aaron Family Dallas Jewish Community Center 7900 Northaven Rd, Dallas, TX

Join the Dallas Jewish Historical Society for a special program with Danny Fingeroth, the author of The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin, in conversation with The Sixth Floor Museum curator Stephen Fagin.   Tickets available here   FREE admission for Museum members at the Associate ($250) level and above. Contact membership@jfk.org to RSVP and/or upgrade …

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An Evening of Conversation: Ruth Paine and Thomas Mallon

Dupree Theater at Irving Arts Center 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd, Irving, TX, United States

The Museum is pleased to share information about upcoming program as a courtesy.   Forever connected to the difficult days of November 1963, Ruth Paine will talk with author Thomas Mallon about her life before and after the assassination of President Kennedy as well as her relationship with Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald. Ticket proceeds …

$37.50
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Texas Theatre’s Special Memorial Experience

Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, United States

The Texas Theatre will honor the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s fateful trip to Dallas with a special memorial experience on Wednesday November 22, 2023.

$.90 – $15.90

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Membership Tour – Two Days in Texas

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Museum members are invited to a private tour of our special exhibition, Two Days in Texas.

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Special Program: In Conversation with Ernest McMillan

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join civil rights activist Ernest McMillan for a conversation with Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, about McMillan’s newly published memoir and many years of social and political action.

Book Signing Event with Darwin Payne

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

The Museum is delighted to host author Darwin Payne on Sunday, February 18 for a special book signing at the Museum Store. Payne will be onsite to sign copies of his recently released book, Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination.

EXPANDFAVORITEVIEW PDF Handmade cardboard "All the Way with Jack!" sign welcoming JFK to Love Field

Living History with Jan Sittel

Curator Stephen Fagin hosts a Living History Program in the South Gallery this month, with special guest Jan Sittel.

Gallery Talk: Living History with Joe Carter

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Free with Museum Admission, Curator Stephen Fagin hosts a Living History Program in the South Gallery this month with special guest Joe Carter, a former UPI reporter and presidential speechwriter. Carter was aboard a White House Press bus in the Dallas motorcade when he heard shots fired in Dealey Plaza.

Free

How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents with Talmage Boston

The former Commissioners Court Room at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St. Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza hosts a special program with Talmage Boston, lawyer and author of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents. Program tickets include a light lunch and a copy of the book.

$65
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Blue Star Museum Program

Offering free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families, in collaboration with the Department of Defense. The 2024 Blue Star Museums program begins on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 18, 2024 and ends on Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2024.

Living History with John Sparks and William Cravens

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

a special Living History program featuring special guest John Sparks and William Craven-- high school band students in 1963.

1960 election posters Kennedy and Nixon for professional development event

Talking Presidential Elections in the Classroom

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Don’t miss this FREE Professional Development program hosted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in partnership with SPHERE, offering 5 continuing education credits. This educator workshop focuses on civil discourse and how the 1960 presidential election continues to influence political campaigns today.

Free

Living History with Dr. Lee Alvoid

Join Museum Curator Stephen Fagin for a special Living History program featuring guest Dr. Lee Alvoid. Dr. Alvoid was co-editor of her high school newspaper in San Antonio in 1963. She briefly met President and Mrs. Kennedy, and attended a student press conference with the president, during the Kennedys' visit to San Antonio

Dallas Teen All Access Pass

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

The Museum has partnered with Dallas Park and Recreation to offer teens age 13-17 free access to the Museum in the months of July and August.

Free
Special Exhibition Entrance view

Gallery Talk – Two Days in Texas – 7/19

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join Museum staff members on the seventh floor each week for a fifteen-minute gallery talk about Two Days in Texas.

Free
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Living History with Gretchen Coben

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Living History program featuring special guest Gretchen Coben. Coben was a Dallas social worker in 1963. She observed the Kennedy motorcade and witnessed part of the assassination from the second-floor balcony of the Old Red Courthouse in Dealey Plaza.

Special Exhibition Entrance view

Gallery Talk – Two Days in Texas – 8/2

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join Museum staff members on the seventh floor each week for a fifteen-minute gallery talk about Two Days in Texas.

Free

Gallery Talk – Two Days in Texas – 8/16

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join Museum staff members on the seventh floor each week for a fifteen-minute gallery talk about the special exhibition Two Days in Texas.

Gallery Talk – Two Days in Texas – 8/23

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join Museum staff members on the seventh floor each week for a fifteen-minute gallery talk about Two Days in Texas.

Living History with Johnny Rincon, Richard Clark and Lisa Hembry

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join Museum Curator Stephen Fagin for a special Living History program featuring motorcade spectators Johnny Rincon, Richard Clark and Lisa Hembry, Friday August 30 at 1 p.m. Included with Museum admission.

Gallery Talk – Two Days in Texas – 9/6

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Friday, September 6 | 1:00 p.m. | Free with Museum Admission   Join Museum staff members on the seventh floor each week for a fifteen-minute gallery talk about Two Days in Texas. Visitors are invited to take a deeper look at the details that shape the exhibition; from powerful eyewitness accounts to rarely seen objects on …

Gallery Talk – Two Days in Texas – 9/13

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United States

Join Museum staff members on the seventh floor each week for a fifteen-minute gallery talk about Two Days in Texas.

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