Museum guests share their reflections by illustrating how the assassination of President Kennedy, their visit to the Museum and the current special exhibition “Colorful Memories, November 22 Through a Child’s Eyes,” made them feel. These drawings can be created in the exhibition space, which features a gallery of original 1963 drawings made by a class of first grade students just weeks after the assassination. The children were asked to share what they remembered through art and verbal recollect

The 2025 Living History series at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza focuses on childhood recollections of President Kennedy and the assassination. The series complements the special exhibit, “Colorful Memories: November 22 Through a Child’s Eyes,” which runs at the Museum from March 2025 to January 2026. The June program in this series features Fort Worth native Lisa Lazo Herndon. Thirteen years old at the time of the Kennedy assassination, Herndon had a brief personal encounter with First

The 2025 Living History series at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza focuses on childhood recollections of President Kennedy and the assassination. The series complements the special exhibit, “Colorful Memories: November 22 Through a Child’s Eyes,” which runs at the Museum from March 2025 to March 2026. The August program in this series features Portland artist Gage Mace. Mace responded to the Kennedy assassination in the early 1990s by painting a life-size triptych inspired by the Zapruder