Researching the Assassination

Curated by Freedonia Paschall     Fabricated by Lyn Stoll     November 2005, SWC
 

November 22, 1963, and the death of the president changed the landscape of life in America.  The country lost its innocence as Camelot came to a brutal and bloody close.

As the presidential motorcade drove slowly through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was mortally wounded.  A sniper injured John Connally, the governor of Texas, who was also riding in the President’s vehicle.  The days that followed were unsettling for the nation.

November 24, 1963, Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, accused presidential assassin, who was in police custody. Ruby’s death, coming soon after his incarceration, left a dearth of information by those closest to the assassinations.

The assassination and the shooting of Oswald still leave many people perplexed.

Many do not believe the killing of Kennedy to be the work of a lone gunman who had lived in the Soviet Union. Conspiracy theorists abound now forty two years after that fateful day in Dallas.

The Southwest Collection holds significant and unique materials dealing with many aspects of the Kennedy assassination, and researchers have availed themselves of this information treasure many times over the last four decades.