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President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    600 Elsbeth, Site of Rotting Apartment Complex In Which Lee Oswald Once Lived, Is For Sale

    ​Speaking of the assassination of John F. Kennedy ...For a long while now we've written about the ongoing fight between the city of Dallas and Jane Bryant, owner of the decaying apartment complex on 600 Elsbeth near Bishop Arts where, in 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald and wife Marina briefly lived. Just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2012

    Discovering a Rare Bobby Patterson Single Mentioned in the Warren Commission Hearings

    ​A Friend of Unfair Park wondered Saturday afternoon: Is the "unknown teen" named Robert Patterson heard singing "Tell Me How" and "Dear Debbie" on this purchased-this-morning Future Records single none other than the Bobby Patterson? Why, yes, yes it is; just listen to that voice. Said Bobby when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    It's Not Every Day You Get to See an Original Calvin and Hobbes Piece In Person. (Or Buy It.)

    Courtesy Heritage AuctionsOne of the few Calvin and Hobbes originals ever to come on the auction market's now residing at the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple. For now.​That was quite the Heritage Auctions infomercial ABC aired during prime-time last night: Unfair Park's cross-the-street neighbor got ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    April 28, 2011

    City Hall's Kennedy Conspiracy

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

  • Blogs

    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

    October 20, 2010

    Buy This: Closing the Door on Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald's Former Oak Cliff Apartment

    ​Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald's old Oak Cliff apartment -- the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn't officially go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    So Dean Foods Is Eliminating the "Schepps" Name in Dallas. Well, That Doesn't Seem Right.

    Soup Can​"Schepps" has been a brand name in Dallas since 1942, when Harmon Schepps started the dairy with a single truck that became a ginormous bidness since swallowed up by Cityplace-based Dean Foods. (Fun fact: Harmon was called to testify in front of the Warren Commission due to his friendship ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Joe Campisi Lives On in the Virtual Realm, Promoting His Family's Pizza

    ​One of Dallas' oldest restaurants has found a very modern way to promote its pizzas and pastas. Campisi's recently contracted with Brad Williamson, who bills himself as The Virtual Biographer, to create an online identity for restaurant founder Joe Campisi, who died in 1990. To the surprise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Lost in Dealey Plaza, "The Bermuda Triangle of Pop Culture!"

    ​One of Dallas' oldest restaurants has found a very modern way to promote its pizzas and pastas. Campisi's recently contracted with Brad Williamson, who bills himself as The Virtual Biographer, to create an online identity for restaurant founder Joe Campisi, who died in 1990. To the surprise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2007

    It's Our First Birthday. And We're Giving You the Presents. Mazel Tov!

    ​One of Dallas' oldest restaurants has found a very modern way to promote its pizzas and pastas. Campisi's recently contracted with Brad Williamson, who bills himself as The Virtual Biographer, to create an online identity for restaurant founder Joe Campisi, who died in 1990. To the surprise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2006

    Angus Wynne Remembers His Old Friend, James Brown

    ​One of Dallas' oldest restaurants has found a very modern way to promote its pizzas and pastas. Campisi's recently contracted with Brad Williamson, who bills himself as The Virtual Biographer, to create an online identity for restaurant founder Joe Campisi, who died in 1990. To the surprise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2006

    "Just Like a Drift of Blossoms..."

    ​One of Dallas' oldest restaurants has found a very modern way to promote its pizzas and pastas. Campisi's recently contracted with Brad Williamson, who bills himself as The Virtual Biographer, to create an online identity for restaurant founder Joe Campisi, who died in 1990. To the surprise ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    The Reel Truth

    Hollywood Claims the Sky is Falling. To Which We Say Puh-lease.

  • News

    April 19, 2001

    2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

    Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

  • Culture

    March 15, 2001

    Up the Academy

    The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    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?

  • News

    November 26, 1998

    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.

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    Letters

    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.

  • News

    November 27, 1997

    Stained glass

    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.

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    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.

  • News

    May 11, 1995

    Oswald's ghost

    Norman Mailer resurrects a tragically human assassin

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