Dealey Plaza Dallas, TX
In Saving Jackie K Chapter Thirty-Eight—Upon arriving in 1963 Dallas, the team members take their first tour of Dealey Plaza, the fateful location where Jackie K. would be assassinated. Their mission: to prevent the heinous crime from happening.
Photo Gallery Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX
Aerial View of Dealey Plaza - the fateful location where JFK was assassinated - with the former Texas School Book Depository building shown at top center.
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Dealey Plaza Plaque, depicting the three thoroughfares - Elm, Main, and Commerce - converging under the railroad trestle known as the Triple Underpass.
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A longtime publisher of the Dallas Morning News, George Bannerman Dealey used his influence to campaign for redevelopment of the plaza, which now bears his name.
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At the time of the assassination, this seven-story brick building was the Texas School Book Depository, a regional textbook storage and redistribution center where Lee Harvey Oswald worked.
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Separated from the seventh story by a small ledge, the Sixth Floor of the Texas School Book Depository has semi-circle windows across the entire side, except for the square panes at the left and right - where Oswald allegedly fired.
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View from Sniper's Perch inside the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald allegedly aimed his bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano rifle out the southeast window at the president's Lincoln convertible.
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The former Texas School Book Depository has not changed much in the past fifty years, except for the glaring absence of the fabled Hertz billboard and clock on the roof.
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Dealey Plaza Infield, displaying the brick structure of the Texas School Book Depository on the right, and the white concrete Pergola on the left.
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About one hundred feet long, the rounded concrete Pergola has a semi-enclosed back and top with a latticework of gaping rectangles, while its front opens to the plaza.
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The sloping hill known as the Grassy Knoll, with the Pergola on the right, and the stockade fence on the left.
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A Pergola Climber starts from the back on several ledges that make narrow footholds - the first measuring thirty inches from the base.
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Although the rectangular openings start high above, a Pergola Climber can easily reach them.
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A Pergola Climber demonstrates using the rectangular openings as a ladder on the way to the rim of the pale green copper roof.
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