THE SIXTH FLOOR John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation

Softcover. The author chronicles the creation of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, dedicated to John F. Kennedy’s assassination. As the museum’s original project director, Conover Hunt details the struggle to preserve the Texas School Book Depository’s sixth floor, where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots in 1963. Facing Dallas’s shame and calls for demolition, the author and preservationists secured the site, transforming it into a reflective exhibit by 1989. The book captures the emotional and logistical challenges of commemorating a national tragedy on historically charged ground. Includes loosely inserted : Errata (corrections to pages 23-26 "The Witnesses"), a colour postcard of the Texas School Book Depository with 2 colour photographs, plus an explanatory leaflet of the museum. F. with no creasing to covers.