Despite critics, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins remains steadfast on COVID response
After a legacy-defining year, the county’s top elected official reflects on his leadership amid the coronavirus pandemic and racial justice.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins poses at his office after a news conference about the coronavirus pandemic on Dec. 18, 2020. His year was dominated by fighting COVID-19 and responding to calls for criminal justice reform.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
When Dallas County commissioners met downtown recently, John Wiley Price and J.J. Koch snickered out loud. It was 9 a.m., the start of their Tuesday semimonthly meeting, and County Judge Clay Jenkins was late.
Dealey Plaza Interactive Guide
Created by Terra Incognita, this digital guide takes visitors on walking and virtual tours of the Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Responses by Bart Marable, creative director, Terra Incognita.
Background: This site tells the story of Dealey Plaza, the location in downtown Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. While it is most widely known for its connection to the assassination, Dealey Plaza has been an important gathering place and a symbol of civic pride for the community for generations.
A part of the mission of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, located on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository building, is to interpret Dealey Plaza. When they were temporarily closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the museum began transitioning some of its core on-site storytelling to a virtual platform. This was its first major project. Visitors on site at Dealey Plaza form the site’s p
by Sheldon M. Stern
Dr. Stern was historian at the JFK Library in Boston from 1977 to 2000. He is the author of Averting ‘the Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
(2003), The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (2005) and The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths vs. Reality
(2012) in the Stanford University Press Nuclear Age Series.
Cover of Fredrik Logevall JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Penguin-Random House, 2020); Kennedy at far right with crew of PT-109, 1943
Author s note: Logevall, in his Acknowledgments, cites my “steady guidance throughout” and grasp of JFK as “about as deep as anyone’s.” Most journals would likely exclude me from reviewing this book. This essay, however, is not a review as usually defined; rather, it reflects my personal thoughts grounded in years of extensive experience with the archival evidence in the John F. Ken
by Jayantha Gunasekera, PC
November 22, 1963 is a day of sad remembrance for the Americans because it was on that fateful day that their beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald who concealed himself in the Texas School Book Depository to carry out this dastardly act.
President Kennedy, with his wife, Jackie, and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, were in a motorcade, traveling in an open hooded presidential limousine (a Ford Lincoln Continental Convertible) driven by Agent Bill Greer of the Secret Service when Oswald, a superb sniper fired at the back of Kennedy’s head. There was no reason for the President’s Security Officers to even dream that Kennedy’s life would be in danger as he was a very popular President, ushering in a peaceful and prosperous era reminiscent of the legendary Camelot.