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TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza

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