Gary Mack
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| Born | Lawrence Alan Dunkel 29 July 1946 |
| Died | 15 July 2015 (Age 68) |
| Alma mater | Arizona State University |
| Interests | JFK Assassination |
"Consumed with what happened in Dealey Plaza, Mack started out chasing conspiracy theories and ended up chief historian and archivist of the assassination." | |
Gary Mack was the longtime curator of the Sixth Floor Museum, in Dallas,Texas, which covers the assassination of JFK.
Background
Gary Mack was born Lawrence Alan Dunkel in Oak Park, on 29th July, 1946. After gettibg a degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1969, he worked at a variety of AM and FM radio stations as a disc jockey, music director and program director. It was during this period he started using the name Gary Mack. During this period he developed a keen interest in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. [1]
JFK museum
An obituary described how Mack went from "conspiracy theorist" to "respected historian" and curator of the Sixth Floor Museum:
Consumed with what happened in Dealey Plaza, Mack started out chasing conspiracy theories and ended up chief historian and archivist of the assassination. Hugh Aynesworth and Gary Mack weren’t exactly friends when they first met. More like adversaries. "I don’t know, he thought I was the devil I think at the beginning, all these conspiracy people did. And of course they accused me of being ex-FBI, ex-CIA and everything else in between," says Aynesworth. Aynesworth was a newspaper man who dismissed conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination. Mack worked in radio and TV and felt differently. One day, sometime in the 1980s, Aynesworth and Mack had lunch, and everything changed. "We suddenly became friends. And we kicked around a lot of different things and investigated a lot of things together and he became quite a historian," says Aynesworth. Mack joined the staff there in 1994 and became curator six years later. One of Mack’s major accomplishments while working at the Sixth Floor was collecting 250 hours of Kennedy assassination news coverage.[2]
