Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
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.
Co-writer Steven L. Davis discussed and signed copies of his new book, Dallas 1963, an in-depth exploration of the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Moderator was KERA’s Jerome Weeks. Watch the video on YouTube.
The Nasher Sculpture Center will present an encore performance of its commemorative Soundings concert, One Red Rose, on the seventh floor of The Sixth Floor Museum. One Red Rose was written by internationally renowned composer Steven Mackey for the Brentano String Quartet in honor of the anniversary of President Kennedy’s death. It was commissioned by the Nasher with Carnegie Hall …
A reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in 1963, Carroll covered the scene at Dallas police headquarters and witnessed the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. He co-wrote attorney Melvin Belli’s "Dallas Justice" (1964). Watch the video on YouTube.
A Fort Worth native, Griffin was outside the Hotel Texas when the Kennedys arrived on November 21, 1963. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Griffin traveled across the country and became active with the Black Panthers. Watch the video on YouTube.
The Sixth Floor Museum kicked off the symposium, "When Life Strikes the White House: Death, Scandal, Illness and the Responsibilities of a President," with a keynote lecture featuring syndicated columnist and lecturer Richard Reeves. Reeves is currently a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications and is the author of President Kennedy: Profile …
As part of The Sixth Floor Museum’s 25th anniversary commemoration, Associate Curator Stephen Fagin presented a history of the Museum based on his recent book, “Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.” Watch the video on YouTube.
A Dallas police officer for 27 years, Pierce was in charge of basement security on the day of Lee Harvey Oswald’s scheduled transfer to the Dallas County Jail. Pierce drove his vehicle up the Main Street ramp at the same time that some believe Jack Ruby gained access to the basement. Watch the video on …
The eighth annual CSI Family Day at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, set for Sunday, March 9, 2014, will give aspiring crime scene investigators a chance to learn modern investigative techniques for solving crime. Visitors will investigate a mock crime scene, receive a police report about what happened, and perform forensic analysis at …
Pigmans was a Pan Am stewardess aboard the White House press plane in the early 1960s and had met President Kennedy several times. She was at Dallas Love Field at the time of the assassination. Watch the video on YouTube.
As press aide to Governor John Connally in 1963, Read was traveling with the presidential party in Dallas. He was with Connally and his wife, Nellie, throughout the ordeal and later wrote about his experience in "JFK’s Final Hours in Texas" (2013). Watch the video on YouTube.
