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January 22, 2012
Last Night in Arizona, They Sold the Hearse That Drove JFK from Parkland to Love Field
I felt the need last night, the need for the Speed channel, which carried the live-from-Scottsdale broadcast of the Barrett-Jackson auction -- where, as you're well aware by now, they put a certain hearse of local renown on the bidding block. So, then, how much did they fetch for Vernon O'Neal's '64 ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
We're About to Find Out How Much Someone Will Pay for JFK's Ride Back to Love Field
This is the week Barrett-Jackson auctions off the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field. Me, I've got my eye on this sweet '75 Pacer. But the rest of the car world -- or, at least, the 1,200, give or take, who make up the Profes ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Dallas Still "Coming to Grips" With Kennedy Assassination? Still "Wounded"? If You Say So.
Nicola Longford, executive director of the Sixth Floor Museum, won't talk to Schutze, no fan of the museum's plans to take over Dealey Plaza two years from today. But she will visit with the Los Angeles Times about those plans, not to mention that Dealey Plaza redo the city's splitting with the m ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
After 48 Years, DPD Honors Clerk Who Alerted Them to Lee Harvey Oswald's Whereabouts
Photo by Leslie MinoraJohnny Calvin Brewer, left, led officers to Lee Harvey Oswald after Kennedy's assassination. Pictured with historian Farris Rookstool III, center, and former DPD officer Ray Hawkins, who cuffed Oswald at the Texas Theatre.After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
On Nov. 22, "JFK Day" at the Texas Theatre, Starring Van Heflin and Naughty Dallas
What you see above is the ad for the Texas Theatre that appeared in the newspaper on November 22, 1963. But for some, that photo taken of the marquee on that day is burned on the brain; no need to consult the listings to know War is Hell and Cry of Battle were playing when police arrested Lee Har ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Pour a Tall Drink and Read All About Those Who Broke Dallas's News in Bert Shipp's New Book
Brett Shipp was among those who attended Jerry Haynes's funeral Saturday afternoon. The WFAA newsman was accompanied by his father, Bert, who was a familiar face on local television long before his son stepped out of his shadow. Bert and Jerry went way back -- they were among the first to break t ... More >>
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July 24, 2011
Warren Leslie May Be Dead Now, But His Book Dallas Public and Private Will Live Forever
Of all the books written about Dallas, it's easily the one most often cited: Warren Leslie's 1964 Dallas Public and Private, with a later edition underscoring its heretofore subtle subtitle "Aspects of an American City." Subsequent histories-of -- from Patricia Evridge Hill's Dallas: The Making o ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
From the Film Vaults: Rush to Judgment
A witness to the Kennedy assassination shows Mark Lane where he was on November 22, 1963.While looking for something unrelated this morning, I came across quite the cinematic find just posted to the Internet Archive: a full-length copy of Oscar-nominated director Emile de Antonio's 1966 film Rush ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
Bobby Jack Pack Takes Aim at Dealey Plaza
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that the great Bobby Jack Pack, a Best of Dallas winner and local film-making institution, is this close to wrapping a documentary on Dealey Plaza and, more specifically, those populate the site where President John Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. He des ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
The Corps of Photography
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that the great Bobby Jack Pack, a Best of Dallas winner and local film-making institution, is this close to wrapping a documentary on Dealey Plaza and, more specifically, those populate the site where President John Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. He des ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
From a Cemetery in Fort Worth to an Auction House in L.A.: Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin
Via Gawker, this ghoulish gift suggestion (?): Lee Harvey Oswald's Original Pine Coffin, currently up for grabs courtesy the Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders, Inc. This is the pine box in which Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Local Woman Mad For Mad Men, or: Help a Dallas Actress Get a Small Part on a Big TV Show
Perhaps you've heard of Tiffany Lonsdale, who counts among her stage-and-screen credits Bedroom Farce at Theatre Three, several commercials and a few indie productions. Clearly, she has plenty of friends: Many of them have e-mailed in recent days begging us to push her attempt to land a walk-on r ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Well, At Least Erykah Badu's Naked Video Won't Harm Dealey Plaza's Reputation
The Onion News NetworkThe Associated Press just posted its breathless report on the brouhaha over Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" striptease, which has become the Zapruder film of 2010. AP, why the headline: "Dallas Residents Stunned Over Erykah Badu Video"? Shouldn't it have been: "Two Tourists Who Don ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
Erykah Badu Went to Dealey Plaza, Got Naked, Shot Video. City Hall Distances!
On March 17, Erykah Badu and a small crew went down to Dealey Plaza to shoot a very naked video for "Window Seat."Earlier this morning, Pete posted the evidence to DC9: Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" video, the latest informercial for New Amerykah Part Two: The Return of the Ankh, in stores tomorrow ... More >>
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March 25, 2009
Now, Even More Questions Than Answers in Fight Over Sniper's Perch
Is this the real sniper's perch? A phony? And who owns it? And will we ever find out?Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with Joel Elliott, the Canton-based attorney for Caruth Byrd, who, for the last two years, has been embroiled in a contentious legal battle with Aubrey Mayhew over which man owns the ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
UTD Professor's Research At Center Of Pirate Bay Copyright Case
Today in Stockholm, Sweden-based bit torrent site The Pirate Bay entered the eighth day of its trial against International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which is accusing the site of possible copyright infringement, given its role as a host for torrent swapping. And it's a fairly landmar ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
Yet Again, Taking Aim at the "Sniper's Perch" -- This Time, in a Dallas Courtroom
In February 2007, this is the photo of the sniper's perch Caruth Byrd used to auction it off on eBay.Had it not been for an e-mail Parris Mayhew sent to local media on Thursday, The Case of the Sniper's Perch might have gone unnoticed till too late. Caruth C. Byrd v. Aubrey Mayhew -- so named for th ... More >>
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November 24, 2008
Meanwhile, Down at Dealey Plaza ...
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2008
Lee Harvey Oswald's Trial Finally Available on DVD. Hmmm, Wonder Why.
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2008
Counting Down to Craig Watkins and The "Missing" JFK Loot
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2008
A Piece of Parkland Hospital is Now Buried Deep Below Kansas Soil
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Home Entertainment
January 17, 2008
Wookiee Mistake
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2008
Oswald's Ghost Still A-Floatin'
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2007
JFK Killing Gets Second Life Treatment; JFK Not So Fortunate
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2007
Norman Mailer Never Did Like Dallas
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2007
New Conspiracy Theory: JFK Was Not Shot in Dallas
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2007
No Homecoming for Hinckley. Aw, Dang.
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2007
A Grim Keepsake
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2007
The Day Bill Paxton Saw John F. Kennedy
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2007
Jack Valenti Had a Very Good Excuse for Missing the AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2007
Dallas: Full of Famous Folk Friday!
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2007
Take Aim...
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2007
NPR Loves DA Fond of DNA
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2007
Beating a Dead...Horse. Yeah, We're Sticking With Horse.
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
Home Entertainment
February 22, 2007
Chick Flick
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination down at Dealey Plaza -- so you didn't have to. His slide show ... More >>
News
February 15, 2007
Clear as Glass
The latest mystery in the JFK legacy is...a window?
Blogs
November 22, 2006
Shoot the Piano
The latest mystery in the JFK legacy is...a window?
Blogs
August 4, 2006
Life on Marrs
The latest mystery in the JFK legacy is...a window?
News
January 27, 2005
Sleight of Hand
Can Dallas deal with the homeless where they choose to be?
Culture
February 5, 2004
Strange Days
Errol Morris gets history right by recognizing that it's usually all wrong
Film
November 21, 2002
Kill Shot
Neil Burger fabricates Kennedy's Assassin, and he's mostly on target
Film
November 14, 2002
Fake Out
At the Deep Ellum film fest, fact becomes fiction becomes fact
Culture
September 26, 2002
Dead On
Come November, you might discover JFK's real (fake) Assassin
Music
May 10, 2001
Dump
That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? (Shrimper Records)
Music
November 19, 1998
Out Here
That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? (Shrimper Records)
News
November 27, 1997
Stained glass
That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice? (Shrimper Records)
Film
August 28, 1997
Time to kill
McConaughey and Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers
Film
December 21, 1995
A tale of two Tricky Dicks
Two Richards--Nixon and Lancaster--plus one Oliver--prove that power corrupts absolutely
Calendar
November 16, 1995
Events for the week
Two Richards--Nixon and Lancaster--plus one Oliver--prove that power corrupts absolutely
Music
November 10, 1994
Idol worship
In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars
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