Dallas Sixth Flour Museum Essay

The Dallas Sixth Flour Museum is located on Dealey Plaza, Dallas TX and examines the life, death, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy. The museum is located in the very building where Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President on November 22, 1963. The museum showcases photographs, artifacts, short videos, and other forms of display to display all sorts of information such as the intricate details behind the assassination, the culture at the current time period, and details about the life of JFK and his family. The museum starts off by giving every person a set of headphones and keypad that you can interact with that describes each display as you move through the museum. At the beginning of the tour, the museum display exhibits that describe the culture in the 1950’s by displaying books and movie posters such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It then moves on to describe how Kennedy was the …show more content…
Oswald actually fired three shots at JFK, but one of his shots missed whole the other two connected. Oswald was a former marine who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. Initially, Oswald, was arrested for the murder of Officer Tippy, which happened about an hour after the assassination. It was later when he was accused of assassinating the president, but Oswald tried to deny it and claimed that he was just a patsy. However there was overwhelming evidence that he committed the crime. Oswald worked at the Texas School Book Depository which gave him access to the building, his fingerprints were all over the weapon, there were witnesses who saw him in the building around the time of the assassination, and there’s pictures of him holding the same rifle that killed JFK. Two days after the attack, Oswald was shot point blank in front of the media who was broadcasting live as he was being transferred to jail by a Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, and died soon