Dealey Plaza

Dealey Plaza with Dallas is the place where the president of the the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated the November 22nd 1963.

History

Dealey Plaza is a raised place which was completed in 1939 in extreme cases western of the center of Dallas. At the end of the place, three streets, Hand Street, Elm Street and Commerce Street), converge and pass under a bridge of railroad (place known under the name of Triple Underpass in Dallas).

Assassination of Kennedy

In the north of Dealey Plaza, with the corner of Elm Street and Houston Street, the Texas School Book Depository is, the building of which, according to the conclusions of the official investigations, Lee Harvey Oswald drew and assassinated the president.

Elm Street is bordered, on its right-sided, by a grassy zone which goes up soft inclined towards some monuments out of concrete and a carpark delimited by a palisade. This zone is known under the name of Grassy Knoll ( grassy slope ).

According to certain theories, and the House Select Committee one Assassinations ( HSCA ), it is of this grassy slope or of behind the palisade which at least a shot was drawn on the president (though the HSCA estimates that this ball did not touch anything).

Dealey Plaza became a protected historic building. The many visitors of Plaza can thus see Plaza in its general state of 1963, though certain details, such as the road signals or the standard lamps were changed or moved.

In 2003, the town of Dallas approved a project of re-establishment of Dealey Plaza in its exact state of 1963.

External bonds

Stock of images of Dealey Plaza under Creative license Commons
Chart of Dealey Plaza with site of all the witnesses of the assassination
Chart of Dallas with site of Dealey Plaza

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