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Reminders of a Day: JFK Assassination Echoes in Mementos
Mementos from November 22 1963 persist in Irving and Dallas as families preserve notes, a wedding band, a blood-stained rose, and old newspaper clippings. The article follows Ruth Paine and Buell Frazier as Oswald’s movements unfold and notes the museum exhibit reassembling Kennedy era artifacts, including artworks from the Hotel Texas stay.
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Dallas
John F. Kennedy
Irving
Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina
Lee
Ruth Paine
Oswald
Paine
Lawyet
Buell Frazier
Frazier
Texas School Book Depository
Hotel
Texas
Fort Worth
Secret Service
Clint Hill
Kennedy
Jacqueline
Picasso
van Gogh
Monet
Hill
First Lady
Associated Press
Mike Cochran
Air Force One
Love Field