Dallas - The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial

November 22, 1963, the 35th US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated here. While the truth is said to have been secret until 2038, "After all the parties after death" will open......

In Dallas, the most worth visiting is perhaps former US President John F. Kennedy site of the assassination. John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He served in January 20, 1961. On November 21, 1963, President John F. Kennedy flew to Texas to give several political speeches. The next day, as his car drove slowly past cheering crowds in Elm Street corner of Dallas, shots rang out. John F. Kennedy was seriously wounded and died a short time later. Dallas become the youngest President of the United States, the "American dream" shattered place.

The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial in Dallas Downtown's west, including the "Sixth Floor Museum" and a John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Plaza.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Plaza

We first came to the assassination of John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, which is located across the city on the Main Street, the West End of a green lawn, next to the Historic Building of downtown Dallas’ "Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture".

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The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial was dedicated in June 1970, and was envisioned by architect Philip Johnson as an open tomb or cenotaph. The plain white walls appear to be free-floating, capturing the feeling of loss felt around the world following Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

 
Simple but profoundly moving, the open-air John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza focuses on the granite slab bearing the assassinated president’s name etched in gold. The granite memorial is surrounded by soaring concrete walls, creating a roofless space for private contemplation and reflection, free from outside distractions.

The monument is not to commemorate the pain and sorrow, but the joy and excitement of a great man in life to said forever tribute - he is the youngest U.S. President John f. Kennedy.

The Memorial Plaza in the east, across street, there is a "Conspiracy Museum" - "The fact will make you free" in the minds of many people in Dallas until today still believe that the death of John f. Kennedy is a Conspiracy.

 

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Sixth Floor Museum

This is a seven-story building of brick masonry, across Elm Street and Houston Street cross intersection, stands alone at the edge of the city to the west, which was formerly the Texas Schoolbook Depository, after changed to Dallas office building, "The sixth floor Museum ", it is located in the floor of the sixth and seventh layer.

 

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At 12:30 on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy's motorcade had just turned the corner on Elm Street, when more than 10 meters away from the building, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald assassin, from the sixth floor window of the right side stacks fired several shots, which were three bullets hit Kennedy in the head, neck, and chest. He suddenly fell to the wife Jacqueline's knee, the body was full of blood. Such as Jacqueline embrace in horror him to the hospital, the John F. Kennedy has died.

On November 24, another man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald, thus silencing the only person who could have offered more information about this tragic event. The Warren Commission was organized to investigate the assassination and to clarify the many questions which remained.               

But it is said that everyone who has visited, "50% of don't believe the official version, and seems to also have no way to find the truth, whenever there is a problem to get the answer, will be another 15 problems, seems to never end... (Museum director Gary mark) - I think it also because of this, so next the Memorial Plaza have another" Conspiracy Museum. "

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Out of the museum, along the street downstairs, to the west hill about 20 meters away from the middle of the road, with a white "X" symbol. It is said that is the place where John f. Kennedy was shot in the. There are a lot of tourists after red light, then to the photographed with an "X" on the road, leaving a historical memory. Beside the lawn, having a "National Historic Memorial gallery, said the land has been expropriated by the state, and does not change - naturally also includes, the eternal memory of the young President.
   

Tip:

"Sixth Floor Museum"

Address: Located in the former Texas School Book Depository 411 Elm at Houston Street Dallas, TX 752020。

Telephone: 214-747-6660.

Open time: Tuesday to Sunday at 10 am to 6 pm; 12 pm to 6 pm on Monday morning.