President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

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 >>

If RFK Jr. is Skeptical of the Warren Report, He Should Help His Fellow Skeptics Fight Dallas

To: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Dear Mr. Kennedy: You and your sister, Rory, appeared here in Dallas a few days ago as part of the run-up to this city's observance of the 50th anniversary of the murder of your uncle, President John F. Kennedy, in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. This letter ... More >>

The Life and Death of Dallas Theater Center's Jack Ruby, All-American Boy

In 1974, DTC premiered its best show ever. Why was it never seen again?

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

Angus Wynne Remembers His Old Friend, James Brown

"Just Like a Drift of Blossoms..."

The Reel Truth

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

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Up the Academy

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

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?

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.

Letters

Stained glass

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