Entries Tagged as 'Museums'
December 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments
On the northwest side of the DFW metroplex, just a few miles from downtown Fort Worth, you’ll find what’s left of Niles City. Back in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, Niles City was, briefly, one of the richest towns in the world, which was rather remarkable given its size: it covered no more than 1.5 square miles at its largest. Among other things, it included a petroleum refinery and pipeline, a cottonseed oil company, several grain elevators, two meat packing plants — and the Fort Worth Stockyards.
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While Dallas isn’t the hotbed of culture that Fort Worth tends to be, we do have our high points: the Dallas Opera, Deep Ellum, the West End, Fair Park, and a wide variety of museums. Speaking of the latter, the only local museum I’ve blogged about in any detail so far is the Sixth Floor Museum, which chronicles the life and death of President John F. Kennedy in detail. Dallas is where the president was murdered, coming up on 45 years ago now, so I guess we’re entitled to commemorate that particular heartbreak. But a few blocks away is a museum and educational center recording an unimaginably huger tragedy, one that ever person on this Earth should be battered about the head and shoulders with until they’ve gotten the lesson ingrained in them to such an extent that it never, ever happens again: the Jewish Holocaust in Germany in World War II.
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The city of Dallas is well known for a lot of things, but one of the saddest is how incompetent its police force was back in November 1963. First, they let the President of the United States get assassinated right in front of their noses; then they let the assassin get away and murder a police officer before he was caught; and then, when they did catch the assassin, they let him be executed by a disgruntled restaurant owner while he was in their custody. The Secret Service didn’t have a lot to be proud about back then, either. It really is enough to make you wonder about a conspiracy, but I’m of the opinion that one should never underestimate the power of stupidity. It’s easier to explain the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a result of simple bureaucratic ineptitude.
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