Living History | Jane Dryden Louis

Join the Museum Friday, July 25, 2025 for a Living History event, part of the Museum’s series featuring childhood recollections. This series coincides with run of the special exhibition, Colorful Memories, November 22 Through a Child’s Eyes, a look at the Kennedy assassination through the lens of childhood. Jane Dryden Louis will join the Museum this month. A sixth grader in Austin, Texas, Louis was planning to attend the presidential banquet on the evening of November 22, 1963, when the assassination took place. She wrote Jackie Kennedy over two dozen letters over the next six months, one of which was included in Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick’s book, Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (2010).

Included with Museum admission