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Assassination? What Assassination?

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

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 >>

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 >>

Poor David: Club Owner Sure Would Like to Get Lee Harvey Oswald's Tombstone Returned

Historic Auto Attractions​Spent the better part of the morning virtually touring Historic Auto Attractions in Roscoe, Illinois, where, per Roadside America's rave, "the fireplace mantle on which President Truman signed the order to bomb Hiroshima is only a few feet from a pickup truck used on Sanf ... More >>

Gassy Knoll: Dark Forces Silencing JFK Conspiracy Folk

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

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 >>

Pinpointing the Shadowy Figures Behind the JFK Conspiracy ... the Other Conspiracy, That Is

​Excuse me. Pardon me. Sorry to bother you. Got a second? Hey, I'm not asking for money. I just need a favor. Do you know this guy, Frank Librio? Would you be able to get in touch with him for me? He's the spokesman for the city of Dallas. Very intelligent man, professional, used to be in tel ... More >>

City, Sixth Floor Museum to Split Cost of $1.5 Million Dealey Plaza Redo Down the Middle

From the Dealey Plaza renovations briefing the council's Quality of Life Committee never got to hear earlier this year​We first told you back in May that Dealey Plaza is due for a makeover, which involves redoing the north and south plaza pergolas, planting new way-finding and history-of signs, a ... More >>

City Hall Blames Dealey Plaza Arrest On Sixth Floor. Can You Guess Who Sixth Floor Blames?

​Just for the sake of historical accuracy, I would like to point out that the city of Dallas has claimed in court filings that the Sixth Floor Museum was behind the June 10, 2010, arrest and incarceration of Kennedy assassination author Robert Groden, who is charged with illegally selling lite ... 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 >>

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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Past, Present and Future to Officially Collide at Tonight's Texas Theatre Ribbon-Cutting

​If you need me this evening I'll be at the Texas Theatre for the ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially marks the re-opening of the Oak Cliff landmark. Scissors come out at 5, and it should be an intriguing shindig: Not only will Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Delia Jasso be there, but als ... More >>

Re-Tweed: Scenes from a Bike Ride (And Dealey Plaza And Lake Cliff Park And Other Stuff)

Photo by Harry Wilonsky​Yesterday 'round 3ish, the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I stumbled into the recently reopened Millennium in Deep Ellum, a couple of doors down from Lula B's. And as he sat on the antique exerbike parked outside, a horde of nattily attired cyclists pedaled past, head ... More >>

Cupcakes and Motorcades: Judge Sets Hearing in Case of Robert Groden v. City of Dallas

Cupcakes and the Kennedy motorcade, not just a band name anymore​Update at 4:47 p.m.: The City Attorney's Office just sent a statement concerning Robert Groden's lawsuit and his efforts to sell his magazines and DVDs at Dealey Plaza. It's in full on the other side, but here's an excerpt:Robert Gro ... More >>

Judge Has Scheduled Tuesday Hearing Concerning Robert Groden's Intent to Sell Conspiracy Theory Materials at Dealey Plaza

Robert Groden​Still waiting for Official Word from the city concerning Robert Groden's lawsuit filed yesterday concerning his ability -- or, in this case, inability -- to sell his conspiracy-theory publications in Dealey Plaza. But when we went down to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courtho ... More >>

Schutze Says We Should All Do a Badu and Get Naked at Dealey Plaza--and That Includes Him

Perhaps We Can Ask the Visiting Convention Planners to Find Dallas's Essence For Us

​You may spot more than a few out-of-towners wandering 'round our frigid climes this a.m.: The Association for Convention Operations Management is holding its annual conference at the Westin City Center today through Sunday, and among the opening events are optional sightseeing tours of the city, ... More >>

A Sneak Preview of National Geographic's JFK Doc, Which Doubles as Local Media History

Just spent the better part of an hour watching a rough cut of National Geographic Channel's The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, a found-footage doc that makes its debut Monday at 8 p.m. C.S.T. Those burned out on Last Day of JFK documentaries need to take note: It's not another rehashing of the e ... More >>

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 >>

We'd Rather

The reporting legend discusses JFK's final day

Arlington Lands 2014 Final Four. Current Score: Arlington 35, Dallas 3

This just in: Dallas has officially moved to Arlington. Well, after Arlington's new Jonestown Coliseum snared another 100,000-kilowatt event this morning, that feels like the score. Right? On the heels of Dallas being shunned by the women's Final Four last week, the Cowboys' new stadium to ... More >>

Scenes from the Drilling Gallery

McCain and Obama, As Seen Against the Book Depository Wall

Oh, Cliff!

Todd Haynes Offers His Bob Dylan

He knows it might not be your Bob Dylan

Memorable Movies

The Sixth Floor screens Dallas' shots

Helter Skelter, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

Blisters on Mah Fingers!

Blisters on Mah Fingers!

I Wanna Be Sedated

Hear the tale of Big D's most infamous photo

Sniper's Perch a Real Dutch Treat

Clear as Glass

The latest mystery in the JFK legacy is...a window?

Black and White

Dive into Dallas' past at the Sixth Floor Museum

Tourist Trap

Open Letter # 19328471

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Art of the Scare

It's not a museum anymore, Dorothy

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Defining Moment

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

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Bells’ll Be Ringing

Dallas forms a special union

Kill Shot

Neil Burger fabricates Kennedy's Assassin, and he's mostly on target

Looking Back

Why does Dallas write its musical history with an eraser?

Sassy Knoll

Two JFK conspiracy buffs commit character assassination over a collection of purloined slides

Letters