Over the years, the museum has offered exhibits, access to a catalog of some 2,500 oral history recordings[5] and speaker events with book authors and other prominent figures related to JFK, Oswald and the historic and cultural significance of the infamous presidential visit.

[9] In February 2007, the previously unreleased 8 mm film footage of Kennedy's motorcade, donated to the museum by George Jefferies and his son-in-law, was shown publicly for the first time.

[12] Its "JFK Was Here" banners to highlight the historical significance of places along the 1963 motorcade route from Love Field to Dealey Plaza[13] were met with mixed reactions about reminders of the assassination.

Fagin manages the institution's ongoing Oral History Project and contributes to collections, exhibitions, education, and public programming initiatives.

He is the author of Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza,[19] published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2013.

The book highlights the decades-long work of people determined to create a museum that commemorates a president and recalls the drama and heartbreak of November 22, 1963.

Fagin narrates the painstaking day-to-day work of cultivating the support of influential citizens and convincing boards and committees of the importance of preservation and interpretation.