I'm posting this on behalf of my supervisor....

-----Original Message-----
From:   Marian Ann Montgomery
Sent:   Friday, March 06, 1998 2:34 PM
Subject:        RE: Controversial images

At The Sixth Floor Museum our founders chose not to show graphic violence
because of the young children who they expected would visit the museum.
 They did include images of JFK's bloody shirt which is stored as evidence
in the JFK Assassionation Records at the National Archives but avoided the
grissly bloody nature of the image by showing it in black and white.

It is of course, the third grade boys who they chose to shelter from the
violence that groan when the video of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza stops
just before the first shots ring out.

We plan to have the Zapruder film available for visitors to see in the
public research center as we expand.

Personally I go to museums to be challenged and renewed.  I would find it
demoralizing and unattractive to have to pass images of graphic violence,
especially at the entrance to a gallery.    I have seen images if the
damage done by violence in exhibits on unions and early social work
movements.  While troubling they were useful to the exhibit, but they were
small and only a portion of the exhibit.

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Ph.D.
Director of Interpretation, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
(214) 747-6660 x. 6697.