Featured below are key Kennedy assassination-related stories published in The Dallas Morning News through the years. New assassination-related stories published in The News will be posted here. Visit often for updates.
03/26/2001Forensic article posits 2 JFK gunmen
WASHINGTON The House Assassinations Committee may have been right after all that there was a shot from the grassy knoll.
03/02/2001
Henry M. Wade, 1914-2001: Legendary DA dies at 86
Henry M. Wade, who reigned over justice in Dallas as its district attorney for 36 years, died Thursday at age 86. A legend who never lost a case he personally prosecuted, Mr. Wade set a benchmark for criminal prosecution.
02/17/2001
Sixth Floor Museum expansion focuses on disputed tower
A railroad switching tower, whose commanding position off Dealey Plaza has earned it a place in several assassination conspiracy theories, will be renovated as part of a proposed $1.8 million improvement project of the Sixth Floor Museum. "Without a doubt, the tower is the linchpin of the plan," said Jeff West, the nonprofit museum's executive director. "It's a major part of the assassination site."
02/16/2001
Colorful FW native Pat Kirkwood dies after cancer bout
Pat Kirkwood, who owned a notoriously naughty Fort Worth nightclub and lived an adventurous life that included auto racing and work as a government informant, died Friday of lung cancer at Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospital. He was 73.
02/11/2001
Kent Biffle: Jack Ruby told his side to newsman
During most of his dozen years as nightlife columnist for this newspaper, Tony Zoppi endured persistent visits from Jack Ruby, who was forever seeking printed plugs for his striptease clubs.
02/04/2001
Kent Biffle: Assessing that bloody weekend
SAN MARCOS, Texas "Until the assassination of President Kennedy, everything in my world seemed clean, transparent and orderly. Nothing has seemed clean, clear or orderly since."
12/23/2000
Theran Ward, who signed JFK death certificate, dies
Theran Morris Ward, the justice of the peace who signed President John F. Kennedy's death certificate at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, died of pneumonia Thursday at Baylor Medical Center at Garland. His health had been failing for many years.
11/23/2000
Crowd pays tribute to Kennedy
The anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination passed Wednesday on Dealey Plaza in what has become traditional fashion, with a milling crowd swapping memories, leaving flowers, propounding conspiracy theories or simply observing the scene.
11/20/2000
Family donates JFK film, copyright to museum
The family of an air-conditioning maintenance man whose home movie captured one of the most dramatic moments of Nov. 22, 1963, has donated the film rights to The Sixth Floor Museum.
11/19/2000
Time crumbles sites associated with JFK
Senior Cpl. Cheryl Convery's job on the Dallas police force includes one duty surely unique in American law enforcement she shows the employee-parking garage to tourists.
11/09/2000
Jean Hill , eyewitness to JFK's assassination, dies at age 69
Jean Hill , an eyewitness to President John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Tuesday in Dallas.
10/04/2000
Sixth Floor Museum plans to extend reach
When The Sixth Floor Museum opened in February 1989, officials didn't know whether it would be in business for six months or six
years. Now, more than 11 years later, construction is scheduled to begin this week to expand the museum to the seventh - and top - floor of the
former Texas School Book Depository.