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GALLERY TALKS & OTHER EVENTS
2008 Public Programs
Evening Programs Free and open to the public, this series demonstrates why the past is relevant to the present and future. Doors to the seventh floor event area open at 6:30 p.m. Please note the sixth floor exhibition is closed during the evening programs. For reserved seating, please call 214-747-6660, ext. 5525 or email programs@jfk.org.
An Evening With Bill Lively Bill Lively, founding president and CEO of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, recounts the day President Kennedy was assassinated and reveals details about the Center, set to open next year in the Dallas Arts District. The program celebrates the arts, a hallmark of the Kennedy administration and marks the 91st anniversary of President Kennedy’s birth date.
28 Days at the Piccadilly: A Civil Rights Demonstration The Museum marks the 45th anniversary of Kennedy’s televised address on civil rights with a panel discussion featuring Clarence Broadnax and Reverend Earl Allen, who organized the 1964 demonstration at the downtown cafeteria. Respected journalist Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram leads the lively discussion, and previously unseen surveillance photographs of the protest, taken by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, provide visual background.
Daytime Events
Reverend McElvaney’s Unjust War: Vietnam In observance of this year's International Museum Day theme, "Museums as Agents of Social Change and Development," Museum oral historian Stephen Fagin explores the local 1960s peace movement through the life of Dallas activist Rev. William K. McElvaney. The event includes rare home movies and photographs and a Q&A with Rev. McElvaney and his wife, Fran. Free with paid admission to the Museum.
Eyewitness to History: George Jefferies The company secretary at Universal Insurance brought his home movie camera to work and joined several co-workers at the south side of Main Street, just east of Lamar, to view President Kennedy’s motorcade. Jefferies’ remarkable footage of Mrs. Kennedy, featured in the special exhibit, Filming Kennedy: Home Movies from Dallas, caused a worldwide sensation last year when it was publicly released by the Museum. This gallery talk is free with paid admission to the Museum.
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