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.
See the assassination through the eyes of two juniors from Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas in 1963 at this Living History program with Jan Sittel and Betty Duke-Rudh.
Experience the assassination and life growing up in the 1960s through the eyes of then-seven-year-old, Paul Amundsen at this Living History program
A thirteen-year-old Fort Worth native, Lisa Lazo Herndon had a brief personal encounter with Jackie Kennedy outside the ballroom at the Hotel Texas.
A sixth grader in Austin, Texas, Jane Dryden 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).
Join the Museum Friday. August 29, 2025 for Living History with artist Gage Mace from Portland, Oregon. Mace responded to the Kennedy assassination in the early 1990s by painting a life-size triptych of the tragedy, inspired by the Zapruder film. He donated the fourteen-foot-long piece to The Sixth Floor Museum in 2020.
Join the Museum Friday, September 26, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. for a Living History with veteran Dallas/Fort Worth broadcast producer and journalist John Sparks.
This month the Museum welcomes Michael Suley, who fourteen and a high school student in Pittsburgh in 1963, Michael Suley paid his respects to President Kennedy in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and observed the Kennedy funeral procession. Free with Museum admission.
