Sixth Floor Museum Living History with Wilborn Hampton

It has been almost a half century since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas, yet stories from those who witnessed the event still resonate today. As the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death draws near, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza will recall the assassination and other historic events of the early 1960s through a yearlong Living History Series. The series connects the past to the present through firsthand accounts from reporters, law enforcement officials, doctors, military personnel and everyday citizens who witnessed or, in some cases, made history.

Today Caleb and other members of the Sixth Floor Museum’s youth Advisory Committee facilitated the event with Wilborn Hampton, the youngest United Press International reporter at the Dallas bureau in 1963, Hampton covered suspect Lee Harvey Oswald at Dallas Police Headquarters. He later wrote a young adult history book, Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter’s Story.

Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?
As I have observed, those who plow evil
    and those who sow trouble reap it.
 At the breath of God they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.

Job 4:7-9