Cronkite's voice + grainy '60s footage = chills you didn't ask for.
The Sixth Floor museum at Dealey Plaza presents a group of six short films about the life, death and enduring legacy of John F. Kennedy that are shown in the Sixth Floor Exhibit of the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. The sudden death of this young, vibrant world leader sent shock waves around the globe. The assassination remains one of the most vividly remembered and controversial events of the century. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is a permanent exhibit in the former Texas School Book Depsitory. The films included in this exhibit have been adapted as an educational video examining the life, times, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy
Direction
Mondells weave personal testimony with archival mastery.
Acting
Cronkite's narration—journalism royalty at his most human.
Editing
Zapruder footage placement that respects without sensationalizing.
Director
Allen Mondell
Walter Cronkite
Self - Host
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Caroline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walter Cronkite had already anchored CBS coverage of the assassination in 1963; this 1989 narration was his return to the subject for the first permanent exhibit in the actual crime scene building.
The Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 after decades of the Depository sitting essentially abandoned—Dallas finally confronting its most infamous address rather than demolishing it.
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