JFK Assassination 50th Anniversary Media Open House - Eyewitness Panel
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 Published On Jan 22, 2014

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a panel discussion for media attending the JFK Assassination 50th Anniversary Media Open House on November 20, 2013, featuring assassination eyewitnesses. Panelists included: W.E. "Gene" Barnett, the closest Dallas police officer to the Texas School Book Depository entrance at the time of the assassination; Rickey Chism, who was with his family in Dealey Plaza and whose parents were later interviewed at length by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department; Eugene Boone, the Dallas deputy sheriff who discovered the rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository; Dr. Ronald C. Jones, chief surgery resident in Parkland Memorial Hospital's emergency room on November 22, 1963; and Bob Jackson, a photographer with the Dallas Times Herald who was in the motorcade and saw a rifle in the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building. The program was moderated by Museum associate curator Stephen Fagin.

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