The Kennedy assassination is viewed as this watershed moment, and so it has that symbolic significance attached to it, which lends itself very well as the backdrop to a comic book, to a science fiction television show, to a feature film, because it does provide that gateway into a distinct moment in time that instantly defines the culture of the era.

Stephen Fagin

Stephen Fagin is Curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Since joining the staff in 2000, he has managed the institution's ongoing Oral History Project and contributed to collections, exhibitions, education and programming initiatives. The author of "Assassination and Commemoration" (2013, 2019) and an American History magazine biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, Fagin holds degrees from Southern Methodist University and the University of Oklahoma.

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