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2014 Living History Series – Maurice “Mickey” Carroll

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

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.

2014 Living History Series – Eddie Griffin

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

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.

When Life Strikes the White House

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

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 …

Assassination and Commemoration

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

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.

2014 Living History Series – Rio Sam Pierce

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

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 …

CSI Family Day

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

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 …

2014 Living History Series – Kari-Mette Pigmans

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

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.

2014 Living History Series – Julian Read

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

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.

“The City of Hate”?

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

Did Dallas deserve the moniker, “The City of Hate” following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963? Did the city’s pockets of extremism and paranoia of the time create an atmosphere where assassination of the president was possible? A screening of the documentary, “City of Hate: Dallas and the Assassination,” by …

U.S. Navy Blues City Brass Quintet

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

The Sixth Floor Museum celebrated Navy Week 2014 and honored President Kennedy’s service in the United States Navy with a special performance by the Navy Band Mid-South’s brass quintet, Blues City Brass. The quintet performed a selection of patriotic classics, Broadway hits and popular music.