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.
America's second civilian astronaut, Walt Cunningham in 1968 was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 7, the first manned mission in the Apollo program. He joined NASA in October 1963, less than one month before the Kennedy assassination. Watch the video on YouTube.
The Museum’s collection of civil rights materials includes historic photographs of Dallas’ Piccadilly Cafeteria desegregation protests in 1964, oral histories with members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, as well as a civil rights training handbook and activist support poster. Collections Manager Lindsey Richardson shared these amazing, rarely-seen items.
The Museum’s collection includes artifacts, photographs and films related to the assassination crime scene investigation at the Texas School Book Depository. Learn exactly what was in the crime scene investigative kit that belonged to Lt. Carl Day, head of the Dallas Police Crime Scene Search Unit in 1963.
Journey back to the day of President Kennedy’s assassination and experience the emotion of this historic event through still photography and firsthand accounts. More than 60 photographs from the Museum collections provide the backdrop to a dramatic voice over by the Museum’s Associate Curator Stephen Fagin, who draws upon over 35 oral history interviews.
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas. If you had the chance to change history, would you? Stephen King’s latest novel "11/22/63" addresses this very scenario as the book’s main character travels back in time on a mission to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. In what is expected …
On November 22, 1963 Dick Stolley, Los Angeles bureau chief for Life Magazine, was urgently summoned to the ticker tape machine: “The President has been shot,” he was told. He jumped on a plane to Dallas, tracked down Abraham Zapruder and managed to secure the rights to his home movie film, the only eyewitness film to …
Marquette University political scientist Dr. John McAdams addressed how to think, reason and understand conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination. Museum Curator Gary Mack moderated the conversation with Dr. McAdams, which provided a blueprint for understanding why conspiracy theories arise and how to evaluate their often contradictory claims.
A respected longtime newspaper, radio and television journalist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Sanders was attending high school at an African-American school in Fort Worth in 1963. On Thanksgiving Day that year, his marching band performed a memorial tribute to President Kennedy. Sanders was later an active supporter of the civil rights and peace movements …
To commemorate Presidents Day, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is collaborating with SMU’s Tower Center for a discussion titled The Vital South and Presidential Elections, 1960 – 2012. In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House in one of the closest contests in American electoral history. The South was instrumental …
A nurse at Parkland Hospital in 1963, Phyllis Hall was an observer and participant in Trauma Room One during the treatment of President Kennedy. Watch the video on YouTube.
