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Jerry Pillarelli | profile | all galleries >> Travel and Nature; Sites by State >> US Travel; by Trip, by State >> Texas >> Dealey Plaza National Historical Landmark - Dallas Texas tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Dealey Plaza National Historical Landmark - Dallas Texas

Images of Dealey Plaza - Dallas Texas, taken in August 2016.

November 22, 1963, 12:30 p.m.

Shots rang out wounding Texas Governor John Connally and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a half hour later ending the life of the thirty-fifth President of the United States. The shots were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald from the southeast corner sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository at the corner of Elm and Houston.

It happened here in Dealey Plaza and although there are those that believe in conspiracies regarding why it happened, how it happened or who did the shooting; it is easy to stand on the street and believe that the shots could come from that sixth floor window, the car carrying the president driving away from that building in roughly a straight line.

No matter what one believes this area has been designated as a National Historical Landmark because of the events of that day but this plaza was originally created to mark the site that is considered the birthplace of Dallas which was founded in the 1840s by John Neely Bryan. The plaza itself was named after civic leader and city planner George Bannerman Dealey.
View of Dealey Plaza from the Reunion Plaza Hotel in Dallas Texas
View of Dealey Plaza from the Reunion Plaza Hotel in Dallas Texas		 JFK assassination conspiracy theorist author Robert Groden in Dealey Plaza
JFK assassination conspiracy theorist author Robert Groden in Dealey Plaza		 Straight shot from the Texas School Book Depository; far right window second from the top to the “X” on Elm in Dealey Plaza
Straight shot from the Texas School Book Depository; far right window second from the top to the “X” on Elm in Dealey Plaza		 Texas School Book Depository on the corner of Elm and Houston in Dealey Plaza
Texas School Book Depository on the corner of Elm and Houston in Dealey Plaza		 Old Red Museum on the corner of Houston and Main in Dealey Plaza
Old Red Museum on the corner of Houston and Main in Dealey Plaza
Looking up Elm from the spot where Abraham Zapruder filmed the JFK assassination in Dealey Plaza
Looking up Elm from the spot where Abraham Zapruder filmed the JFK assassination in Dealey Plaza		 Looking across Elm from the spot where the Zapruder film was shot in Dealey Plaza
Looking across Elm from the spot where the Zapruder film was shot in Dealey Plaza		 Texas School Book Depository window, second from the top on right, where Oswald fired his shots in Dealey Plaza
Texas School Book Depository window, second from the top on right, where Oswald fired his shots in Dealey Plaza		 Reunion Plaza Hotel and the triple underpass from Elm Street in Dealey Plaza
Reunion Plaza Hotel and the triple underpass from Elm Street in Dealey Plaza		 Elm Street, the Grassy Knoll and the triple underpass as viewed from Houston Street in Dealey Plaza
Elm Street, the Grassy Knoll and the triple underpass as viewed from Houston Street in Dealey Plaza
JFK parade route turning from Houston onto Elm Street toward the triple underpass in Dealey Plaza
JFK parade route turning from Houston onto Elm Street toward the triple underpass in Dealey Plaza		 Driving over the spot on Elm Street where JFK was assassinated in 1963 in Dealey Plaza
Driving over the spot on Elm Street where JFK was assassinated in 1963 in Dealey Plaza		 Spot on Elm Street where on November 22, 1963 JFK was assassinated in Dealey Plaza
Spot on Elm Street where on November 22, 1963 JFK was assassinated in Dealey Plaza		 Window in the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald fired the infamous shots in Dealey Plaza
Window in the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald fired the infamous shots in Dealey Plaza		 Grassy Knoll and Stockyard Fence on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza
Grassy Knoll and Stockyard Fence on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza

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Dave 11-Aug-2016 01:44
Man, did that bring back memories of that day.
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