Dealey Plaza

The story

The plaza is both a city park and a crime scene the world never forgot.

Dealey Plaza is the three-acre park at the west edge of downtown where Elm, Main, and Commerce drop toward the Triple Underpass. Built as a WPA project in the late 1930s and named for Dallas Morning News publisher George Bannerman Dealey, it became the setting of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. Today it is a National Historic Landmark District — lawns, the pergola where Abraham Zapruder stood, the Grassy Knoll, and the old Texas School Book Depository framing the street where history turned.

Sources: NPS — Dealey Plaza Historic District · City of Dallas — Iconic Landmarks PDF · Visit Dallas — Architecture tour

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