Sixth Floor Museum Puts Us on the Spot, on November 22, 1963

Last week I was in Dallas and Fort Worth to see the magical Bonnard exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is the ultimate warm-me-up artist, based as he was, most of the time, on the Riviera, so I’ll write about the exhibition and the Kimbell’s 50th anniversary in December, when it’s cold.

Today, I’ll write about another anniversary and another museum. I’d never been to the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. It’s the riveting museum treating the murder of President Kennedy. This coming November 22 is the 60th anniversary of an event that was world-shaking, era-defining, tragic, and, still these days, a maker of brawls. The museum is located on Dealey Plaza, mostly on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Oswald shot Kennedy and changed history. Visiting is an unforgettable experience — exacting, thorough, startling, and spine-tingling. You are there, along with 1963’s bystanders, witnesses, killers, and victims.

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Last week I was in Dallas and Fort Worth to see the magical Bonnard exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) is the ultimate warm-me-up artist, based as he was, most of the time, on the Riviera, so I’ll write about the exhibition and the Kimbell’s 50th anniversary in December, when it’s cold.

Today, I’ll write about another anniversary and another museum. I’d never been to the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. It’s the riveting museum treating the murder of President Kennedy. This coming November 22 is the 60th anniversary of an event that was world-shaking, era-defining, tragic, and, still these days, a maker of brawls. The museum is located on Dealey Plaza, mostly on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository from which Lee Oswald shot Kennedy and changed history. Visiting is an unforgettable experience — exacting, thorough, startling, and spine-tingling. You are there, along with 1963’s bystanders, witnesses, killers, and victims.