The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

If you are going to understand what happened here, start inside this building — not on a conspiracy tour.

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Book timed tickets early
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Dallas
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West End
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The story

If you are going to understand what happened here, start inside this building — not on a conspiracy tour.

The Sixth Floor Museum fills the old Texas School Book Depository — the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired at the presidential motorcade. Exhibits cover Kennedy's presidency, the assassination, the investigations, and the cultural aftermath. Looking out the sixth-floor corner window puts Dealey Plaza and the X on Elm Street in the same view Oswald had.

Sources: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza · Visit Dallas — Architecture / Dealey

Visitor tips

Show up ready.

  • Hours: Check jfk.org for timed tickets
  • Parking: Museum parking and West End garages
  • Best photo: Exterior from Houston Street; follow interior photo rules
  • Best time: Book timed tickets early
  • Free: No

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Address

411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202

Photo credit: Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0