60 Years Later
SPECIAL EXHIBITION
Now on Display
Seventh Floor Gallery
Organized by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Two Days in Texas is a special exhibition revisiting President Kennedy’s 1963 trip to Texas through eyewitness accounts and his own words. This exhibition takes a new approach to telling the story of the assassination by tracing the President’s footsteps through each of the cities on his last presidential tour. In commemorating 60 years since the tragic assassination, Two Days in Texas reflects on the President’s time in Texas and the experiences of everyday Texans who he encountered through the perspective of today.
Included with Museum admission.
Images
RESOURCES
In the Fall of 1963, President Kennedy embarked on a two-day visit to Texas with planned stops in San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin. Thousands turned out to welcome the Kennedys in each city they visited, creating lasting memories now documented in the Museum’s Oral History Collection.
Listen to the personal stories about the trip to Texas from the people who came to see the Kennedys in November 1963.
ADMISSION
This special exhibition is included with Museum admission and is presented on the seventh floor. The main exhibit, John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation, is on the sixth floor.
MOTORCADE BANNERS
Banners were placed along President Kennedy’s motorcade route which used historic images from the Museum’s collections, and were placed on the same street where the photograph was taken. The intent of this installation was to make passersby aware of the historic significance of these public spaces, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the assassination. Read more about the significance and banner installation here.
FOR RESEARCH
The Texas John F. Kennedy Resource Consortium was assembled by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in advance of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The goal of the consortium is to provide a list of archives, collections and research institutions from across the state of Texas who maintain relevant collections or archives.
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
Hear more from the eyewitness voices featured in Two Days in Texas with links to their full oral history interviews.
