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Assassination and Commemoration - JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (Hardcover)
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Assassination and Commemoration - JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (Hardcover)
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The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963
were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the
edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas
School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was
designated part of a National Historic Landmark District in 1993.
This book recounts the slow and painful process by which a city and
a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the
assassination and its aftermath.
Stephen Fagin begins "Assassination and Commemoration "by
retracing the events that culminated in Lee Harvey Oswald's shots
at the presidential motorcade. He vividly describes the volatile
political climate of midcentury Dallas as well as the shame that
haunted the city for decades after the assassination. The book
highlights the decades-long work of people determined to create a
museum that commemorates a president and recalls the drama and
heartbreak of November 22, 1963. Fagin narrates the painstaking
day-to-day work of cultivating the support of influential citizens
and convincing boards and committees of the importance of
preservation and interpretation.
Today, The Sixth Floor Museum helps visitors to interpret the
depository and Dealey Plaza as sacred ground and a monument to an
unforgettable American tragedy. One of the most popular historic
sites in Texas, it is a place of quiet reflection, of edification
for older Americans who remember the Kennedy years, and of
education for the large and growing number of younger visitors
unfamiliar with the events the museum commemorates. Like the museum
itself, Fagin's book both carefully studies a community's
confrontation with tragedy and explores the ways we preserve the
past.
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