The Sixth Floor Museum

The Sixth Floor Museum

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is a historic museum dedicated to the life and - in particular - the assassination of JFK. The Sixth Floor Museum is located in the former Texas School Book Depository building at Dealey Plaza in... [more]

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is a historic museum dedicated to the life and - in particular - the assassination of JFK. The Sixth Floor Museum is located in the former Texas School Book Depository building at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas - the location where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK.

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The quick crack of gunshots in Dallas's Dealey Plaza that terminated the life and presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy continues to reverberate 33 years later. But the shock of the assassination is now overshadowed by dismay over the ruthless cover-up of what may be the greatest unsolved crime of the century. Today the 1964 report of the Warren commission reads like a fairy tale. The lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was ruled to have fired...  
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Forty-six years ago, today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. That much is known. The rest, pretty much, is speculation. When I was 11, I found myself browsing through the used books section of the Value Village in New Westminster, B.C. My eyes stopped on a weathered copy of the Warren Commission findings — [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting...  
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Bombshells in the new trade paperback of a good JFK assassination book are featured in a new Discovery Channel special, "Did the Mob kill JFK?" produced by NBC. It premieres Sunday, November 22, 2009, on the Discovery Channel (US) at 8pm and again at ...  
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The country’s most shocking day in modern times, before 9/11, occurred 46 years ago Sunday. The History channel has a couple of grabber specials that night about the event. And on Monday, National Geographic Channel premieres the arresting special “The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination”.  
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Examiner.comPart Two: An American remembers the years after the JFK assassinationExaminer.comIt was my godfather Eaton's wife Susan Hayward. Eaton was a special agent. Susan and I talked, but she never mentioned that he was dead. ...and more »  
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Discovery Channel investigates Kennedy assassination in Did the Mob Kill JFK? and JFK: The Ruby Connection, two shows premiering back to back on November 22, 2009.  
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Two new Discovery programs will delve into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, "Did the Mob Kill JFK?" and "JFK: The Ruby Connection."Both shows will air on the anniversary of JFK's death, Nov. 22, from 8-10 p.m. The programs include never-before-aired information, the network says.-- Allison J. Waldman  
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Copy negative of a view from the historic Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. The view through a window shows multiple vehicles traveling down several streets -click image for detail. DallasNews.com reports: UNT Libraries' new online JFK archive...  
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Penn Jones, Jr. (1914-1998) is one of my heroes. He had the courage to stand up to the official version that was given by our 'authorities' for the shooting of John F. Kennedy in downtown Dallas. His voice was one of dissent.  
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The New York Times, on October 17, published a page-one story by Scott Shane about the CIA's defiance of a court order to release documents pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in its so-called Joannides file. George Joannides was the CIA case officer for a Cuban exile group that made headlines in 1963 by its public engagements with Lee Harvey Oswald, just a few weeks before Oswald allegedly killed Kennedy. For over six years a...  
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NY Times - Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.'s behavior.For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The C.I.A. says it is only protecting legitimate...  
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The CIA is fighting to prevent the release of hundreds of documents involving its funding of an anti-Castro group in New Orleans that engaged in well-publicized clashes with Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963. The New York Times reported on Friday that the files "involve the curious career of George E. Joannides, the case [...]  
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Scott Shane writes in the New York Times: Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.’s behavior. For six years, the agency has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The C.I.A. says it is...  
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"Mad Men" has been moving slowly through the early 60s, such that it set itself up for a huge impact when JFK was killed. But when word came that the President had been shot finally in Sunday's episode, it was ignored on one set where Harry Crane had to keep track of all the ads; he was talking with Pete Campbell about his job problems (he didn't get the head of accounting that went to Ken Cosgrove).  
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Well, the episode we knew was approaching occurred, one week earlier than most predicted. Thankfully Mad Men’s handling of the JFK assassination was understated, which added to its effectiveness. As one reader said to me, “They just snuck it on ...  
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Is there anything left to be said—or seen—when it comes to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Just you wait. JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America, a two-part, four-hour special airing on History [Sunday, October 11, 9/8c and Monday, October 12, 9/8c] takes viewers back to November 22, 1963 and tells the story via a timeline using only archival news footage, much of which will be new even to assassination buffs. There is no narration...  
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According to an eBay seller, President Kennedy had intended to give this print as an official presidential gift to his close friends and White House staff at Christmas 1963. As everyone knows, JFK was tragically assassinated in November of 1963....  
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A recently declassified oral history by Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, President Kennedy's military aide on the Dallas trip, sheds new light on the critical hours after the shooting.  
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Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi called for a reopening of the investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., during his speech at the UN on Wednesday, and pointed the finger at Israel in Kennedy's death.(...)more  
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Newly opened documents contradict some commonly accepted accounts of President John F. Kennedy\'s death, according to historian Steven M. Gillon. In his new book ...  
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LBJ On JFK Assassination: 'It's All A Conspiracy' Was Johnson feigning hysterics to hide his role in the murder plot? Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com  
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According to the book by Steven M. Gillon The Kennedy Assassination -- 24 Hours After via huffpo: It was standard practice for the plane to take off as soon as the commander-in-chief was onboard. Even after McHugh had ordered the pilot to take off, however, "nothing happened." According to the newly declassified transcript, Mrs. Kennedy was becoming desperate to leave. "Mrs. Kennedy was getting very warm, she had blood all over her hat, her...  
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It is the John F. Kennedy assassination anniversary on Sunday November 22nd, as then President JFK was killed on Friday November 22nd 1963. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard of the assassination of JFK; it seems to be one of those defining moments in history....read more  
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Sunday is the 46th anniversary of the day that President John Kennedy was assassinated. For one Las Vegas man, it will bring back a flood of memories about the only criminal case ever brought to trial in connection with the JFK assassination.  
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Apropos the blogs that Lew Rockwell and I have done on the alleged phony JFK assassination autopsy photos, here—for those of you who haven't seen it—is the famous film footage shot by the late Abraham Zapruder of the Kennedy assassination itself. Now, you too can be a judge of where ...  
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The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.  
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History, like politics, is local. So while the collective national memory of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 has been distilled to several seconds of color home movie footage of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza and Walter Cronkite choking up on CBS, a whole set of local memories is fading away. November 22, 1963, was chilly and damp in Seattle, where the temperature had dipped to 39 degrees that morning. As elsewhere in the rest of the...  
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DALLAS - Let's take a look back at a big story on this date in history. In 1963, a gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy while he was riding in a motorcade in Dallas. A bullet also seriously wounded Texas Governor John Connally, who was also in the convertible. The 46 year-old Kennedy was pronounced dead thirty minutes later. Later, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. Within hours...  
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While digesting the clever interweaving of the JFK assassination into the fictional storyline of “Mad Men”….love the fact that Harry Crane (Rich Sommer), the head of the TV department and thus the guy who watches TV for a living, missed the initial CBS bulletin. I realized Matt Weiner has been building the Aquanet ad campaign [...]  
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"The whole sad and sordid JFK assassination anniversary got me wondering: what would the media coverage have been like if JFK had been assassinated on November 22, 2009, and not in 1963?"  
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By Gina Gomez Oct. 12, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The assassination saga of President John F. Kennedy that was executed by Lee Harvey Oswald would be brought to light on the screen once more but the angle of narration prefers to be a little different. History Channels’ “JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America” picks up a different chain [...]  
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I'm watching a collection of old news footage from the JFK assassination on the History Channel right now, and was wondering if any Freepers have any theories about what really happened. I figure with the great wealth of knowledge here on Free Republic, there's got to be some pretty good theories waiting to be shared.  
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Monday, November 23 at 9PM ET/PT For over 45 years, news footage and radio reports of Kennedy’s assassination and the days following have quietly languished in Dallas – first kept under wraps by the news stations who owned them, then in the vault of a museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the day Kennedy was [...]  
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The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination 9 p.m., National Geographic The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on Nov. 22, 1963, gets a compelling re-telling tonight. Nowadays, with cable news channels and cellphone cameras, we get to watch every big news event unfold minute-by-minute, in an insane amount of detail. We’re all Zapruders. This two-hour documentary goes back and assembles ...  
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Michael Sean Winters has an interesting analysis of the victory of the Stupak amendment. But even if I didn’t know that he was roughly the same age as I am, I think I’d be able to guess from his post. He talks about “right-wing paranoia” that, he jokes, might end up causing the conservative Catholic website InsideCatholic “to start a series on alternative theories about the JFK assassination.” Okay, a lot of people might use the JFK...  
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LISTING SLIGHTLY Remembering JFK, the nation's first pop-culture president By Don Effenberger | Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 Sunday marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a transitional political figure who captured the imagination of a nation and, in the process, became an iconic pop-culture symbol.  
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What could be the last autograph signed by President Kennedy was sold recently at an auction of items linked to his assassination in Texas. Kennedy reportedly signed the front page of the Dallas Morning News, which contained a photo of him and the first lady and a preview of their arrival that day in Dallas.  
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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was the news story of the year. In Lancaster, local people who worked with the late president were recognized in the weeks that followed, including Earl Dauterman, who guarded his helicopter. This article was in the Nov. 23, 1963, edition of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.  
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The Kennedy Assassination 24 Hours After -- Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President by Steven M. Gillon, Basic Books '09, $25.95, 294 pages, ISBN #046501870X. Index, note on sources, notes, grouping of b&w images. In the aftermath of JFK's assassination in 1963, so much bad blood flowed between...  
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 The Israelis were behind the JFK assassination. Martin Luther King's assassination was a plot, too. Probably the same guys who made swine flu before it escaped from the laboratory. Reopen the files! If Afghans want to fight each other, let them. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9-11. Nobody but Spaniards were involved in the Spanish Civil War. You are all devils. Here is a white book. I will now throw it at a wall.Some kind of performance...  
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On Nov. 22, 1963, hundreds of hours of TV news, radio reports, and home movies captured history as it was chaotically unfolding.Add this to your queueAdded: Fri Nov 13 03:01:04 UTC 2009Air date: Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 04:09  
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Here at Riptide, we've had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents. ​Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles -- Miami's most famous ...  
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USA TodayLife moved forward on day of jfk's assassinationHouston ChronicleAP Texas News © 2009 AP DALLAS — President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 46 years ago in Dallas on a day that also saw people trying to go forward with ...On fateful day of jfk's assassination, life marched on in DallasDallas Morning News46 years later, local residents reflect on JFK assassinationGalesburg Register-Mailall 85 news articles »  
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Just spent the better part of an hour watching a rough cut of National Geographic Channel's The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, a found-footage doc that makes its debut Monday at 8 p.m. C.S.T. Those burned out on Last Day...  
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Any new theories? Where do you stand on the old theories? Is the Warren Report conclusion (for all the flaws in its investigation) beginning to worm its way into your heart? Did the assassination change your life? Did it (and successive assassinations) change your vision of America? Your vision of the world? Or is it irrelevant that there’s still doubt warranted (pun intended). Irrelevant in toto? (the Latin word, not Dorothy’s dog). I’ve been...  
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There are many questions about the JFK assassination that can easily be answered - but only by eyewitnesses who aren't going to be alive for much longer. Do the math: It was 46 years ago this week. It's time for these eyewitnesses to tell their ...  
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Associated Press - November 22, 2009 3:05 PM ET DALLAS (AP) - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 46 years ago in Dallas on a day that also saw people trying to go forward with their...  
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by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Black Friday coupons (Searches increased by 3,175%). Websites are already promoting deals for the day after Thanksgiving. John F. Kennedy assassination (+1,450%). Today marks the 46th anniversary of the 35th president's untimely death. Weekend box office results (+210%). Not bad for a bunch of teen vampires and wolves: The "New Moon" saga brought in the third biggest box-office...  
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Today marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of U ... Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived , a new documentary from director Koji Masutani , explores the “What If?” scenario, Would the U.S. have been involved in the Vietnam War if ...  
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FBI special agent has been interviewed for books and calls and questions keep coming from teachers, authors and historians. Now, as another anniversary of the assassination arrives, Sibert, 91, was as...  
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We are coming up on the 46th anniversary of JFK's assassination in Dallas, which occurred on November 22, 1963. Although some of the circumstances surrounding our 35th President's death are still a mystery, there is no mystery about his love for Cuban cigars. Last year, we obtained some inside information about Kennedy's passion for H. Upmann cigars, courtesy of a retired executive from the old Consolidated Cigar Company. If you are...  
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On Nov. 22, 1963, hundreds of hours of TV news, radio reports, and home movies captured history as it was chaotically unfolding. This is not the stock footage that we've all seen befire,  
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A poster made for an 'alley cat' or messenger bike race in Dallas is getting a lot of attention and causing some controversy. The poster says 'Doom Presents 3rd Annual Kennedy Assassination Race'.  
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... ago, I wrote about his telephone chats with former President Gerald Ford. They spoke on the phone twice, after Warriner sent Ford a letter about Ford’s work on the Warren Commission that investigated the 1963 assassination. “I was the person ...  
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/12848322/Assassinationshttp://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/lhocia.htmhttp://www.ctka.net/pr199-africa.htmlA blog with relevant information for the world.  
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A gray fedora worn by Jack Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald has sold for $53,775 at an auction of items linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  
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What could be the last autograph signed by President John F. Kennedy was sold recently at an auction linked to assassination of President John F. Kennedy. in Texas.  
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Dean College will celebrate the recent donation of an extensive archive exploring the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Anderson library at the Dean Library Learning Commons.  
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DALLAS, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Dallas residents say their lives were affected by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in the city 46 years ago Sunday.  
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What Could Be The Last Autograph Signed By President John F. Kennedy Was Sold Recently At An Auction Linked To Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy. In Texas.  
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