Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, is now a historic site and largely preserved since 1963. The plaza has a grassy knoll, which has been the subject of conspiracy theories, and a museum in the former Texas school book depository. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993 and efforts have been made to restore it to its 1963 appearance.
Dealey Plaza is an area in the US city of Dallas, Texas that became famous as the site where US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The area itself has become part of the historic district within the city, declared a historic site and fairly well preserved since the assassination in 1963. While there have been some changes to the area, it mostly remains similar in appearance to how it looked at the time of President Kennedy’s death. Dealey Plaza is frequently cited and studied by those interested in the assassination and is viewed as a crime scene by those pursuing the forensic aspects of the president’s death.
Dealey Plaza, named for journalist George Dealey, was fairly unknown outside of Dallas prior to 1963. The area was developed using Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding in 1940 on the west side of the downtown district of Dallas. Three streets converge at Dealey Plaza: Elm Street, Main Street, and Commerce Street at the point of a freeway underpass. The plaza itself essentially consists of a small triangular area, two sides of which consist of Elm Street and Main Street meeting at a corner, and the other side consisting of Houston Street.
Within the triangle formed by these streets at Dealey Plaza is a large grassy area, with various tall buildings lining the streets around the plaza and a grassy area along Elm Street as it approaches the “triple underpass” where the three roads. This grassy area has been referred to as a “grassy knoll” and numerous conspiracy theories state that a second assassin may have been positioned behind a fence at the rear of this area. The official report on President Kennedy’s assassination indicates that the sole assassin, presumably Lee Harvey Oswald, was positioned on the sixth floor of a building that was then used as a Texas school book depository. This building is now a museum, located near the corner of Elm and Houston streets.
Dealey Plaza was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993, 30 years after the assassination of President Kennedy, and has been largely preserved since 1963. Although some geographic features have changed, such as plants removed or added and streetlights moved, the buildings and the Dealey Plaza ground remained the same. This allows people studying the assassination to travel to the square and see the scene firsthand. Efforts have been undertaken to restore the region to exactly as it looked in 1963, and numerous digital models of the square have also been created.
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