John F. Kennedy

Good Satire or Bad Taste?: The Morning News and a Pulitzer Winner Battle Over a JFK Joke

We were pretty sure that Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Ricks' recent suggestion in the Washington Post that America exile Texas in pursuit of a more perfect union was a joke. Blaming the state for the JFK assassination (without Texas, "John F. Kennedy might still be alive") and the wars in Iraq and A ... More >>

The Washington Post Suggests that America Boot Texas From the Union

Obama's reelection last year prompted a lot of talk over whether Texas should once again secede from the Union. Except for a few die-hard secessionists, though, few considered it a serious proposal, more like an opportunity to make Texas jokes. So the debate just kind of fizzled out. But the Washin ... More >>

Dallas Still Wants to Control Speech on JFK Anniversary

Is the Trilateral Commission behind an anti-conspiracy conspiracy?

JFK Conspiracy Theorist Robert Groden goes 81-0 with Latest Win Against City Censors

Wanted to go ahead and let you know, since apparently nobody else is going to do the story, that Robert Groden, the Kennedy assassination author, has won yet another legal victory in his fight against the city's years-long efforts to muzzle him. And, sorry, certain commenters here, but that's what ... More >>

Two Ad Men Are Helping Dallas Deliver the Speech JFK Never Got to Give

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, a half hour before he was scheduled to deliver a 1 p.m. speech at the Dallas Trade Mart. The words were never passed Kennedy's lips, but the speech survived and, a month later, was printed and bound into a book by Stanley Marcu ... More >>

Assassination? What Assassination?

When it comes to JFK, Dallas is stuck in the denial stage of grief.

Co-Creator of White Buffalo: An American Prophecy: Investigation into Animal's Death a "Crock of Shit"

In this week's edition, the cover story chronicles the short life and ambiguous death of Lightning Medicine Cloud, the rare white buffalo born to Hunt County rancher Arby Little Soldier. To the Lakota Oyate, the animal was prophecy, heralding the return of the prophet White Buffalo Calf Woman, and a ... More >>

Morning News Keeps the Silence Rolling on the JFK Anniversary Controversy

Story by Rudy Bush in today's Dallas Morning Pravda about plans to refurbish Dealey Plaza, the place where Dallas killed Kennedy. Typical straight-up just-the-facts news objective reporting, don't you know. Except the story ends with a fund-raising appeal: "Those interested in providing assistance c ... More >>

Have Cocktails With Marilyn Monroe

Million-Dollar Dealey Plaza Facelift Goes to Landmark Commission

We've known for a while now that the city will keep the the 2013 commemoration of John F. Kennedy's assassination "classy," we just haven't known exactly how. We still don't, but we now know that it will involve a fairly significant touch-up to Dealey Plaza. The architecture firm Good Fulton & Farr ... More >>

Robert Groden: The Plaza Man

In this week's Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here On November 22, 1963, the day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, R ... More >>

JFK Assassination Docs Won't Be Released By 50th Anniversary After All

One thing the city of Dallas won't have to deal with in its attempt to keep the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination classy is a lot of new information that complicates our picture of November 22, 1963. Salon reported yesterday that the National Archives is refusing to release 1,171 classified C ... More >>

Fort Worth Honors JFK Without Trampling on Free Speech. How Do Those Guys Do it?

Work has started on the Fort Worth JFK tribute, a memorial plaza to be dominated by a larger-than-life statue of President John F. Kennedy with his hand extended for a friendly shake. What a difference a half-hour drive makes. When complete, the Fort Worth memorial will serve as stark contrast to ... More >>

Yet Again, An Attempt to Sell the Hearse That Took Kennedy From Parkland to Love Field

Barrett-Jackson​A quick look-see reveals efforts to sell the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field have failed at least once before -- in 2007, when Arrdeen Vaughan, the Alvarado funeral-home owner who'd had it for decades, came ... More >>

Gassy Knoll: Dark Forces Silencing JFK Conspiracy Folk

Dallas is playing to its City of Hate stereotype for assassination's anniversary.

King Tackles a Prez's Redrum

Dealey Plaza Redo: Beware the Goon Squads

​Yesterday's city council committee briefing on restoring Dealey Plaza was all very well. The well-intended and the well-heeled have joined together to raise money for a well-designed refurbishing of the place where President John F. Kennedy was ... well, you know ... shot. I'm sure it will b ... More >>

City Hall's Kennedy Conspiracy

Kennedy assassination author and conspiracist Robert Groden says the city's out to get him. He may be right.

Camelot on Canvas

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The City's Chased Away Those Dealey Plaza Vendors, But At Least You Can Get a La Duni Cupcake at the Sixth Floor Museum Now

Photos by Patrick MichelsSoft. Comforting. Tacky?​"Life's too short to be serious." Printed on a tiny, squishy yellow pillow. For sale at the Sixth Floor Museum Store Cafe. You know, the one that caters to patrons of the Sixth Floor Museum, the museum that features exhibits about the untimely de ... More >>

Noted JFK Conspiracy Theorist Robert Groden Files Federal Suit Against Dallas, Claiming He Was Arrested and Harassed in Dealey Plaza

Evan ClintonThe scene down at Dealey Plaza today, where vendors selling their wares were noticeably absent​Maybe you heard: A couple of weeks ago, Dallas police began cracking down on vendors at Dealey Plaza selling maps, magazines, books and other conspiracy-theory whatnots. Deputy Police Chief V ... More >>

Crushing Grain and Slasher Blend Violence And Dark Comedy With Mixed Results

JFK = Still Dead. Will a President Ever Come to Dallas Again?

Too soon?​Sunday was the 46th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. A couple questions ...

We'd Rather

The reporting legend discusses JFK's final day

Forty-Five Years Later, Discovery Channel Shoots JFK in Dallas Yet Again

Gird your loins: The conspiracy theorists -- by which I mean the truth-tellers, of course -- are coming to town. Beginning a week from tomorrow, the Adolphus Hotel will host JFK Lancer's November in Dallas 2008 confab, scheduled to run for three days to coincide with the 45th anniversary of John ... More >>

Creative Assassination

Kerry Max Cook, From Wrongly Imprisoned to Rightfully Nominated

Making Book

Memorable Movies

The Sixth Floor screens Dallas' shots

Making a Killin' Off Kennedy

Killing Me Softly With JFK Conspiracies

A Killing off Kennedy

So, Like, Wanna Know Who Killed J.F.K.?

Queen Maybe

Ever in search of a life, this girl finds an old one

JFK Sat Here!

Picture It

Lowe shows the positive with his negatives

Defining Moment

Forty years later, "local yokels" take pride in covering tragedy

A Shot in the Dark

Plus: Tourist Trap

Quick Click

Pulitzer winners were in the right place at the right time

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

What Crisis?

How Kevin Costner learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Well Dunne

The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

Best tragic place to invite more tragedy

Dealey Plaza

The truth is way out there

Jim Marrs believes that Kennedy was murdered as part of a vast conspiracy, that aliens vist us regularly, and that the Trialateral Commission controls our governement. So, what if he's right?

Munch on this

Talk the talk

Officer down

Thirty-five years ago, Jesse Curry was Dallas' respected, popular police chief. Then Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, and Curry became just one more victim of the Kennedy assassination.

Conspiracy Theory

JFK assassination buffs who peddle their wares on the grassy knoll think there's a plot to put them out of business. They may be right.

Oswald's ghost

Norman Mailer resurrects a tragically human assassin