Drew Hunter Oral History
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- Hunter, Drew
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- Kennedy, Jacqueline
- Connally, John
- Connally, Nellie
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
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- Hughes, Sarah T.
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- Lincoln, Abraham
- Booth, John Wilkes
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An article I wrote in the Fall 2015 issue of Legacies Dallas History Journal about Kennedy memorialization in Dallas includes the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum dioramas based on the assassination. The article may be read here: Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2015 - Page 24 of 67 - The Portal to Texas History (unt.edu). A presentation of the paper at the 2015 Legacies Dallas History Conference, which includes rare color film of the Lee Harvey Oswald tableau, may be viewed here: Legacies 2015: Kennedy Memorialization in Dallas (youtube.com).
A collection of postcards from the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum showing each of the Kennedy assassination tableaus may be found here in the Museum's online collections database: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/35155. The tableaus are also depicted in the out-of-print (though highly fascinating) 1977 book, America in Wax by Gene Gurney. The Museum has a copy of this book in the Library Collection: Bibliovation | Details for America in wax. - Stephen Fagin, Curator