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Teacher Workshop – A Time For Greatness: The 1960 Presidential Campaign

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

In this workshop, educators toured the A Time for Greatness exhibit, sampled the TEKS- aligned education programs and lesson plans designed to accompany the exhibit, and interacted with curatorial staff. Showcasing campaign memorabilia, photographs and film from The Sixth Floor Museum’s collection, this colorful look at the 1960 Kennedy campaign offered a timely exploration of …

$20

Gallery Talk – Highlights from A Time For Greatness

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

Photographs and artifacts tell unique and sometimes surprising stories. This new temporary exhibit highlighted the Museum’s favorite—and most interesting—objects and images from the 1960 campaign, including materials from Senator Kennedy’s visit to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in September 1960.

$5

Gallery Talk – When LBJ and Lady Bird Came to Dallas in 1960

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

In the final days of the 1960 campaign, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird were accosted by demonstrators while visiting Dallas. This incident gained national media attention at the time, and it would return immediately after the assassination in 1963 as a powerful example of the city’s volatile political atmosphere. Through …

$5

Teacher Workshop – A Time For Greatness: Presidential Elections and Respect

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

In 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon, award-winning presidential historian David Pietrusza crafted a revealing, electrifying portrait of the first modern-day presidential campaign, the epic battle between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon. It was the first campaign to utilize the power of television, the first in which all fifty states would participate and …

$25

Gallery Talk – Highlights from A Time For Greatness

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

Photographs and artifacts tell unique and sometimes surprising stories. This new temporary exhibit highlighted the Museum’s favorite—and most interesting—objects and images from the 1960 campaign, including materials from Senator Kennedy’s visit to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in September 1960.

$5

Teacher Workshop in partnership with The World Affairs Council – Cuba

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

Cuba, often at center stage in international affairs, is again the focus of global attention. After Fidel Castro stepped down after nearly fifty years as Cuba's leader, his brother, Raúl Castro, embarked upon a series of reforms that are gradually but fundamentally changing the country. The 2014 announcement to normalize Cuba-U.S. relations after over five …

Gallery Talk – 1960 Campaign Wives

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

Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Kennedy both supported their husbands as they campaigned for president but did so in very different ways. Mrs. Nixon accompanied her husband everywhere, and he referred to her in almost every speech. Mrs. Kennedy hated campaigning and avoided it when possible – aided in part by her pregnancy. This exploration of …

$5

Gallery Talk – Coffee with the Curators

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

There is much more to the story of the 1960 campaign than the Museum was able to tell in its A Time for Greatness exhibit. The curatorial staff led an informal question-and-answer session that explored many of the topics touched on in the exhibit as well as new areas of discussion raised by the audience. …

$5

Gallery Talk – PT-109 and the 1960 Campaign

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

On August 2, 1943, Lt. John F. Kennedy’s motor torpedo boat PT-109 was sunk in the Pacific Theater. Kennedy, clenching a life jacket strap between his teeth to tow one injured crewmember, swam for four hours to lead survivors to a nearby island. This dramatic tale of World War II heroism framed Senator Kennedy’s political …

$5

Gallery Talk – When LBJ and Lady Bird Came to Dallas in 1960

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

In the final days of the 1960 campaign, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird were accosted by demonstrators while visiting Dallas. This incident gained national media attention at the time, and it would return immediately after the assassination in 1963 as a powerful example of the city’s volatile political atmosphere. Through …

$5