The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza chronicles the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy.
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05/21/2026

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is growing our team.

We are currently hiring for two positions that play an important role in preserving history and supporting the Museum experience for visitors from around the world.

Registrar�Help steward the Museum’s collections through documentation, care, installation coordination, records management and collection data oversight.

Operations Manager�Lead the day-to-day operations of the Museum, overseeing facilities management, security, transportation and parking coordination, safety and risk management.
Join a team dedicated to preserving and presenting history where it happened.
View open positions and apply at jfk.org/careers.

05/18/2026

On , we’re The Sixth Floor Museum conscious of the role museums play in preserving history, fostering dialogue and connecting people across cultures and generations.

Our new special exhibition, “On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963” explores the Kennedy assassination weekend through the perspectives of the journalists who documented events as they happened. Presented in both English and Spanish, the exhibition also features family guides available in seven languages — English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Japanese and Mandarin — helping make this history accessible to visitors from around the world.

As museums continue to serve as places of learning, reflection and shared understanding, we are proud to welcome global audiences to engage with

05/14/2026

The Museum staff attended a training this week at thanks to and got to explore the venues installation that includes a Jack Ruby display as well as a safe that has been there since Ruby ran the place in the 1950s. Ruby booked major Black entertainers, including Nat King Cole and Count Basie, during segregation. His tenure, featuring integrated crowds, lasted from roughly 1952 until 1953. How cool is that!?

We are sad to learn of the passing of G. Robert Blakey, who served as chief counsel and staff director for the U.S. Hous...
05/12/2026

We are sad to learn of the passing of G. Robert Blakey, who served as chief counsel and staff director for the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979. Blakey later served as a consultant during the development of The Sixth Floor exhibit and returned to the Museum for a memorable assassination debate with Warren Commission assistant counsel Howard Willens in 2018. Among the most-viewed videos on the Museum’s YouTube channel, that public program, "Conflicting Conclusions: The Government Assassination Investigations," the link is in the comments. Our sincere condolences to Professor Blakey’s family and friends.

05/06/2026

That’s the headline that ran with the story Dallas Times Herald journalist Vivian Castleberry wired to a Canadian publication at the end of an extraordinary news day. Follow her story reporting on the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963 in our new special exhibition “On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963”. This immersive and interactive exhibition allows visitors to follow 4 Dallas Times Herald reporters and their experiences that weekend in Dallas. With rarely seen objects on display, the Museum offers a different perspective of what happened in our city that weekend. Open through March 2027, included with Museum admission.

04/30/2026

Now open! All the hard work by Museum staff, and our vendors is finished for our newest exhibition on the seventh floor. On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963 is an immersive exhibition that places visitors inside the newsroom during one of the most consequential weekends in American history. Through the work of Dallas Times Herald reporters and photographers, the exhibition traces the rapid shift from routine presidential coverage to national crisis. Original photographs, handwritten field notes, press credentials and Pulitzer Prize–winning imagery reveal how local journalists documented the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in real time—balancing urgency, accuracy and responsibility under extraordinary pressure. At the heart of the exhibition is a recreated 1960s newsroom, inviting visitors to step into the role of a reporter or editor, navigate breaking information and experience the demands of deadline reporting. By connecting the decisions behind the front page with enduring questions about media, accountability and truth, On Assignment offers a timely reflection on how history is reported, remembered and understood. Included with museum admission! . Thanks to our partners and Dallas’ Office of Arts and Culture.

04/25/2026

It’s and Jackie is unquestionably one of the most memorable First Ladies of the United States. This throw back from our collection features the Franklin Mint Jackie Doll, from the Museums collection. .

On January 20, 2026, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a lecture by Dr. Tahir Rahman, associate professor...
04/21/2026

On January 20, 2026, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a lecture by Dr. Tahir Rahman, associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University, St. Louis. Drawing from his book Extreme Overvalued Beliefs, Dr. Rahman discussed extremist psychology grounded in his research and the ARCH model. He connected potential motivations behind the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald to enduring patterns of radicalization seen today.
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The opinions and viewpoints expressed in this program are those of the speaker, not The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

04/04/2026

In February 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7—a milestone in the early days of human spaceflight.

Following the mission, President John F. Kennedy reflected on what such achievements represented: not only technological progress, but a shared national purpose and a belief in what could be accomplished together. Between 1961 and 1962, he strengthened the nation’s space effort by securing expanded funding, defining the goal of reaching the Moon, and building the public and political support needed to carry it forward.

This week, that trajectory continues. For the first time since 1972, astronauts have departed Earth’s orbit and are traveling toward the Moon aboard Orion as part of Artemis program—a direct continuation of the work begun during the early years of human spaceflight.

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411 Elm Street
Dallas, TX
75202

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 1pm - 6pm

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(214) 747-6660

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https://www.store.jfk.org/, https://www.jfk.org/, https://www.jfk.org/on-assignment

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