Ruth Paine House Museum

Reconstructed using Ruth Paine’s cooperation, family photographs, and Warren Commission records, the 1,250-square-foot house explores the lives caught up in the 1963 tragedy. The story unfolds across the rooms through projected vignettes featuring actors portraying Ruth and Michael Paine alongside Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald, speaking dialogue drawn directly from words from the historical record. Guided tours navigate the preserved domestic space to examine the final hours before shots rang out at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza.