JFK-LBJ: Transition of Power

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and The Dallas Theater Center partnered to present programming for the Dallas premiere of the play, All the Way, winner of a 2014 Tony Award®.  This panel discussion compared Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and showcased firsthand accounts from November 22, 1963 from the perspective of politics, presidential security and photojournalism. Panelists were Julian Read, a longtime public relations and political consultant who was press advisor to Gov. John Connally in 1963 and traveled with the official party in Fort Worth and Dallas; U.S. Secret Service agent Walt Coughlin who served on the White House Detail for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; and Eamon Kennedy, who was a Dallas Times Herald photojournalist covering Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas Theatre and Dallas police headquarters in November 1963. View this program on YouTube.