The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza www.jfk.orgThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza interprets the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy. Now, through interactive, inquiry-based distance learning programs, you and your students can experience history through careful examination of the photographs, films and artifacts in the Museum's collection of 35,000 items. These programs also connect students with "living history" speakers: eyewitnesses, law enforcement officials, journalists, physicians and others with direct memories of the Kennedy assassination. A selection of engaging programs provide opportunities for students to meet the Museum's curatorial, collections and education staff, prompting thoughtful discussions on U.S. history, world history, the Civil Rights Movement, oral history and the role of the historian! All programs are TEKS and TAKS aligned, and meet national history standards.
Four new programs from Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza are now available for registration.
Living History: Bob Jackson
Bob Jackson photographLeft, Dallas Times Herald staff photograph. Right, © Bob Jackson
Friday, September 10th
2:00-2:45 PM CST
Grades 4-12
$115.00 per site
(includes pre and post program materials)
On Friday, November 22, 1963, newspaper photographer Bob Jackson was assigned to take pictures of President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas for The Dallas Times Herald. Through photographs and news footage from 1963, discover how Jackson came to cover one of the largest, most tumultuous news events of the twentieth century, and hear the back story on how he captured one of the most recognizable still images of the twentieth century when he photographed the moment Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald.
Meet the Sixth Floor Museum: Q&A Session
Photos from the Dallas Times Herald collection from the JFK assasinationL-R: Dallas Times Herald Collection; Dorothy and Carter Murphy Collection; Bill Winfrey Collection/Dallas Morning News
All photos are property of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Monday, September 27th 11:00-11:30 AM CST
or
Monday, October 25th 11:00-11:30 AM CST
or
Wednesday, November 17th 3:00-3:30 PM CST
Grades 4-12
$100.00 per site
(includes pre and post program materials)
Here is your chance to introduce your students to the world of the Museum! Meet the staff that makes The Sixth Floor Museum tick: curators and educators, the librarian or the collections staff can come into your classroom to share details about their jobs, training and what life is like behind the scenes at The Sixth Floor Museum. We can answer questions about the assassination using photographs, film clips, artifacts and more and will even provide a look out of the sixth floor window.
John F. Kennedy and the Dallas Civil Rights Movement
JFK photos from the civil rights movement
L-R: Dallas Times Herald Collection; Dallas County Sherriff's Department Collection
All photos are property of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Thursday, October 14th
2:00-2:45 PM CST
Grades 4-12
$115.00 per site
(includes pre and post program materials)
Discover how President Kennedy's legacy continued to have an effect on the Dallas Civil Rights Movement long after 1963. Through speeches, photographs, oral history testimony and documents in the Museum's collection, the Dallas story is connected to the national struggle for equality, and students draw conclusions about how the movement plays a role in their lives today.
Conflicting Evidence? The First 24 Hours of the Kennedy Assassination
JFK Dallas Police Department photos
L-R: Dallas Police Department photograph/Rusty Livingston Collection; Jay Skaggs Collection
All photos are property of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Monday, November 4th
11:00-11:45 AM CST
Grades 4-12
$115.00 per site
(includes pre and post program materials)
Examine evidence found by investigators within the first 24 hours of the Kennedy assassination in this primary source-based program. Participants will evaluate the accuracy of reports and eyewitness accounts, and will use photographic analysis to evaluate what happened on November 22, 1963. This program transforms students into history detectives as they evaluate the films, photos, oral histories and other evidence related to the investigation of President Kennedy's assassination.
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