Sixth Floor Museum

Can You Say "Assassination?"

Dallas mossbacks still think they can silence debate at the JFK anniversary.

Assassination Fascination

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 >>

Jeff West, a Tireless Advocate for Downtown Dallas, Died Yesterday at 54

If you appreciate the signs of life that have sprouted downtown in recent years -- and anyone who loves this city does -- Jeff West is at least partly to thank. The 54-year-old, who died Monday, was a tireless advocate for downtown and the city. He headed the Sixth Floor Museum for 11 years, the Da ... More >>

Let's Throw a Surprise Party for the 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination

On June 13, 2010, Dallas police arrested and jailed Robert Groden, author of best-selling books on the Kennedy assassination and a consultant to the Oliver Stone movie, JFK. The police accused Groden of violating a city law against selling books in Dealey Plaza, where the assassination happened almo ... More >>

Sixth Floor Museum Restores Texas School Book Depository Sign. Then Hangs It Inside.

​Got a note today from the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza's Liza Collins saying that the museum has restored and just re-hung the old 2.5-foot-by-17-foot Texas School Book Depository sign once displayed above the Elm Street entrance to the building. Removed n the '70s and stored by the museum ... More >>

I Ain't 'Fraid of No Quail: Bird is the Word at the Allegedly Haunted Catfish Plantation

While I was in Waxahachie a few months ago, I meant to stop by the Catfish Plantation, a Waxahachie legend, made famous because it's allegedly haunted. Eager to see some ghosts and possibly Dale Hansen, I headed back out to the 'Hachie to see what I could scare up. (See what I did there?) Before I ... More >>

'Bad Sex' or None at All: King's Dallas Novel Nominated for Dubious Honor

Stephen King made a rare appearance at the 6th Floor Museum recently, touting his new novel, 11/22/63, which was nominated last week for an annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review. We understand that bad sex might not be the only reasonable gripe about King's Kennedy-era thriller, ... More >>

Witness to Bloody History

King Tackles a Prez's Redrum

The Dallas Way to Honor John F. Kennedy in November 2013: Silence Pesky Free Speech

​Dear John F. Kennedy Library Foundation: Good move on blowing off the Sixth Floor Museum and executive director Nicola Longford regarding her plans for a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza. Believe me: You don't want to touch this gang with a 10-foot ... More >>

Why I Love Dealey Plaza, the City's True Soul

Photo by Nick Rallo​Dealey Plaza, subject of my feature story in this week's paper version of Unfair Park, is a monument to horror, a locus of global grief, a vortex of paranoia and all that stuff. But on a spring weekend when the weather's good, it's also just kind of a cool place. Is that allow ... 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.

Something for Super Bowl Visitors to See When They're Done at Dealey Plaza

​I'm sure the Sixth Floor Museum will be buzzing. Southfork Ranch. And, unless I'm gauging folks way wrong, during the upcoming Super Bowl week the gentlemen's establishments around D-FW will be jammed as well. But for football fans -- visitors and locals -- there's something you just gotta see. R ... More >>

Florida Prof Unearths Sixth Floor Museum Talks by Dallas Journo Legend Vivian Castleberry

​As the women's editor for the Dallas Times Herald for nearly 30 years, from the 1950s to the '80s, Vivian Castleberry revolutionized the section's coverage -- addressing domestic violence, for example, in addition to lifestyle pieces on decor and fashion -- and became the first woman named to the ... More >>

Look, In The New York Times, It's Dallas Theater Center's Superman and Ben Fountain on the State of Dallas's High-End Retail

Brandon ThibodeauxMatt Cavenaugh at Superman in the DTC's revisal of the '66 Broadway flop​I'll save the boy's picture of Dallas-done-in-LEGO for tomorrow morning; so too tales of our trip to the crowded-ish Sixth Floor Museum Cafe, which is far more surreal in person than Andrea describes below ... 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 >>

Sixth Floor Museum Opening a Cafe. Let Fly With the Tasteless Jokes, Everyone.

Sixth Floor Museum will now feature a cafe.​In a bid to reshape Dallas residents' image of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, the museum's promoting itself as a hip new spot to shop and nosh. The Museum Store Café, opening July 1, will stock gift items made by local artists and serve coff ... More >>

Dear Mrs. Kennedy

If You've Ever Wanted to Own a Big Chunk of the West End, Well, Here's Your Chance

View Larger MapThere's quite a sizable hunk of property available in the West End -- 87,000 square feet of office and retail, plus about 40K in parking spots. Says the for-sale brochure, the four-addresses-big, 'bout-100-years-old West End Square on Elm Street's gone into foreclosure -- no asking pr ... More >>

Keepsakes From Camelot

44 After The 28

Remembering a trade of blue plates for civil rights

"An Extended Stay at The Metroplex"

Making a Killin' Off Kennedy

A Grim Keepsake

The Day Bill Paxton Saw John F. Kennedy

New Footage of JFK Motorcade Available. If It Ever Loads.

A Killing off Kennedy

Can You Hear Them?

The Voices are calling from the Sixth Floor

Sixth-Floor Blues

Single Barrel Theory

Pirates of Conspiracy

The artists of Oh6 turn assassination into comic revelry

Fired Up

Debate Team

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Comfort Food

This tour keeps you in stitches

Picture It

Lowe shows the positive with his negatives

MASS Appeal

Bernstein's Big D story

Action!

It's a race to the finish for Dallas video-makers

Quick Click

Pulitzer winners were in the right place at the right time

Recall 9-11

The Sixth Floor Museum reflects on American tragedies

Will Barbra Be There?

Matchmaker

Presidential suite

Talk the talk

Night & Day

November 19 - 25, 1998

Night & Day

November 5 - 11, 1998

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

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.