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The Sixth Floor: John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
The Sixth Floor John F Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation Author:Conover Hunt In 1979 a courageous group of Dallas citizens, led by community volunteer Lindalyn Adams and assisted by project director Conover Hunt, dedicated themselves to a decade of effort to create the memorable exhibition to which this small book is a guide: The Sixth Floor. The story of their persistence in the face of numerous obstacles is in itself ... more »matter for a book. Objective, restrained, moving in less than a year after it's opening on President's Day in Febuary of 1989, The Sixth Floor had established itself as an exhibition of international importance.
That the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository Building, once the focus of our horror and outrage and grief, should have been transformed in the space of 25 years into a symbol of our courage to heal, to grow, and to carry forward the legacy of a vital young leader, seems a really remarkable achievement, and one of the most positive and hopeful developments in our nation today.« less