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Elm Street looking north
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Dealey Plaza - National
Historic
Landmark plaque |
Southeast window, sixth floor |
The
southeast window on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book
Depository in Dallas, where an assassin is alleged to have fired the
shots that killed President John F. Kennedy and severely wounded Texas
Governor John Connally as the presidential motorcade passed through
Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
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This photograph was taken from the
vantage point of the "X" painted
on Elm Street - the exact spot
where the fatal shot hit The President. |
The window is left "open" as
it was the day of the assassination.
Oswald's rifle was found behind
a stack of boxes nearby. |
| Lee
Harvey Oswald purportedly fired the shot or shots that killed President
John F. Kennedy from a window on the sixth floor of the Texas School
Book Depository building. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B.
Connelly was wounded. During his escape, Oswald also killed a Dallas
police officer, J.D. Tippit, with a revolver. Oswald bought an Italian
made 2766 Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5mm rifle legally, by mail order from
Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago through an advertisement in the
National Rifle
Association's American Rifleman magazine. The revolver was
purchased legally by mail from a Los Angeles company. "Nice shot,
Oswald." has become a pop culture meme amongst baby-boomers and others
wishing to cast aspersions on someone's blunder.
Subsequent investigations and
test-firings of identical rifles show that Oswald, an accomplished
former Marine marksman, could have easily fired the three shots in the
time period, and that the shot that killed the president was "not
particularly difficult." The facts surrounding this fateful day will be
forever shrouded in mystery and subject to the vagaries of conspiracy
theorists. |
The grassy knoll and pergola.
Abraham Zapruder was standing on the low white wall under the
trees
when he shot his famous 8mm film of the assassination. The triple
underpass is at left. |
The grassy knoll from triple
underpass. Note stockade fence at top of hill. |
From Abraham Zapruder's vantage
point atop low wall near pergola. |
The triple underpass, from the south |
The triple underpass, from the north |
The Bryan Collonade |
| On
November 22, 1993, Dealey Plaza including all surrounding
buildings, the Triple Underpass and parts of the North Yard was
dedicated as a National Historic Landmark District. At the ceremony, a
National Park Service bronze plaque mounted on Texas pink granite was
unveiled.
Click here for a large drawing of
Dealey Plaza with points of interest marked. |
