DTC and The Sixth Floor Museum To Co-host Community Conversation on 3/21

By: Mar. 19, 2016
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Dallas Theater Center and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza will co-host a community conversation titled, "JFK - LBJ: Transition of Power" on March 21 at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Join the conversation led by the Museum's curator, Stephen Fagin, and featured panel members. This panel discussion will offer unique comparisons of President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, and showcase firsthand accounts from November 22, 1963-shared by three individuals representing the worlds of politics, presidential security, and photojournalism. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Who: Co-hosted by Dallas Theater Center and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

What: A community conversation titled, "JFK - LBJ: Transition of Power," featuring the following panel:

Walt Coughlin - U.S. Secret Service agent who served on the White House Detail for Kennedy and Johnson, as well as the protective detail for Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was part of the advance team for San Antonio on President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963.

Eamon Kennedy - Dallas Times Herald photojournalist who captured images of Kennedy and Johnson numerous times during the 1960s. On the weekend of the assassination, he took memorable photographs at Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas Theatre, and Dallas Police Headquarters.

Julian Read - A longtime public relations and political consultant who was the press advisor to Gov. John Connally in 1963. Read traveled with the official party in Fort Worth and Dallas and had an insider perspective of the assassination aftermath and the presidential transition that followed.

Where: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

411 Elm. St. Dallas, TX 75202

When: Monday, March 21, 2016 from 6 - 7:30 p.m.

Why: This event is sparked by Dallas Theater Center's current production of All the Way, running through April 3 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre.

RSVP: Register to attend this FREE event at https://www.dallastheatercenter.org/community-engagement.php .

One of the leading regional theaters in the country, Dallas Theater Center (DTC) performs to an audience of more than 100,000 North Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its Mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by REX/OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas and at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. DTC is one of only two theaters in Texas that is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, the largest and most prestigious non-profit professional theater association in the country. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty and Managing Director Jeffrey Woodward, DTC produces a seven-play subscription series of classics, musicals and new plays and an annual production of A Christmas Carol; extensive education programs, including the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award-winning Project Discovery, SummerStage and partnerships with Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and South Oak Cliff High School; and community collaboration efforts with the Sixth Floor Museum, the City of Dallas, North Texas Food Bank, the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Public Library, Dallas Holocaust Museum, Dallas Opera, Dallas Black Dance Theater, and leading the DFW Foote Festival. Throughout its history, DTC has produced many new works, including The Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones in 1978, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, adapted by Adrian Hall, in 1986, and recent premieres of Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter; Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical by Robert Horn, Brandy Clark, and Shane McAnally; FLY by Rajiv Joseph, Bill Sherman and Kirsten Childs; Fly by Night by Kim Rosenstock, Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly; Giant by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson; The Trinity River Plays by Regina Taylor; the revised It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams; Give It Up! (now titled Lysistrata Jones and recently on Broadway) by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn; Sarah, Plain and Tall by Julia Jordan, Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin; and The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson

Dallas Theater Center gratefully acknowledges the support of our season sponsors: Texas Instruments; American Airlines; HP; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs; Lexus; and Time Warner Cable.

 

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