Tyrone Area Middle and High School students will be on hand at the Tyrone History Museum on Saturday, November 26 to open their exhibit \u201cThe Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Questions from the Past\u201d.
\nThe exhibit will open at 10 a.m. and run until 1 p.m.
\nThe project is a collaboration between enrichment students and students in senior high digital video and art classes. It expands on a project researching the assassination of JFK that eighth grade gifted support students at Tyrone, under the direction of Kerry Naylor, complete each year.
\nAt the center of the exhibit is a collection of oral histories offered by nine Tyrone community members who recalled their thoughts and feelings in the days surrounding JFK\u2019s death in 1963. Each participant was interviewed using a series of 10 questions developed by eighth grade enrichment students in the course of their background study of Kennedy\u2019s presidency and assassination.
\nThe interviews were conducted by the eighth grade students and they were recorded and edited into documentary form by students from teacher Eric Feather\u2019s digital video class. Included among the interviewees were the four members of the Tyrone Area School District\u2019s Distinguished Alumni Class of 2005: Harry Sickler, Deanna Morrison Baird, Sam Hayes Jr. and Dr. Jody Harpster. Other interviewees included lifetime Tyrone resident and former journalist Virgie Werner and former TAHS teacher Ronald Thomas.
\nFollowing the interviews, enrichment student developed a format of presenting in museum-exhibit form the reflections of the interviewees. This also was done under the guidance of Feather, who also teaches art at Tyrone and who helped the students to develop a common theme to tie together their work aesthetically.
\nThe project will be on display at the Tyrone History Museum until Christmas and a copy of the documentary will be kept in Dallas in the archives of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealy Plaza, the site of Kennedy\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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