Gallery Talk – 1960 Campaign Wives
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesMrs. 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 …
Gallery Talk – Coffee with the Curators
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesThere 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 …
Gallery Talk – PT-109 and the 1960 Campaign
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesOn 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 …
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 StatesIn 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 …
Illusion and Disillusion: A Panel Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographers on Violence and War
Texas Theatre 231 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, United StatesIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, this program, which was presented by The Sixth Floor Museum and 29 Pieces, provided a platform to launch a powerful …
Gallery Talk – Highlights from A Time For Greatness
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesPhotographs and artifacts tell unique and sometimes surprising stories. Join our collections staff inside our new temporary exhibit as we highlight our favorite—and most interesting—objects and images from the 1960 …
Gallery Talk – 1960 Campaign Wives
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesMrs. 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 …
Gallery Talk – PT-109 and the 1960 Campaign
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesOn 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 …
Gallery Talk – Coffee with the Curators
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesThere 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 …
Twenty-Six Seconds: An Evening with Alexandra Zapruder
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm St., Dallas, TX, United StatesAbraham Zapruder’s home movie capturing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza includes perhaps the most iconic 26 seconds of film in history—the …