Flashback: Mary Kay on JFK Memorial: ‘Make a Parking Lot Out of That Thing'

Editor's note: Take a look back at The Dallas Morning News archives.The debate over monuments may be dominating the headlines these days, but controversies surrounding memorials are nothing new. In 1984, Mary Kay Ash, founder of Dallas-based cosmetic company Mary Kay Inc., ruffled some feathers when she told Bill Kurtis of CBS Nightly News that the city of should make the Kennedy Memorial into a parking lot:  Continue reading...

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