Sixth Floor Museum Overview
The Texas School Book Depository was a rather ordinary building in downtown Dallas until the infamous assassination of US President John F Kennedy on November 22 1963 as he traveled in an open limousine through Dallas on a pre-election visit. Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old Dallas citizen who was accused of the crime, and was himself shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby just two days later, had a filing job at the depository. The deadly shot was fired from the sixth floor of the building, which is now the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza documenting both the assassination itself and the life and times of JFK. Visitors can immerse themselves in the events of the fateful day, with a minute-by-minute account of the action as well as recordings of news broadcasts and even material showing mourning vigils in India and Germany. Other exhibitions focus on the four investigations into the crime, the legacy of Kennedy's administration, and the various theories on who carried out the assassination. The corner staircase where the rifle was found, and down which the assassin is thought to have escaped, has been reconstructed according to official police photographs. Background information to the shooting is provided through displays on the 1960s political, cultural and social movements, and visitors can add their own comments to memorial books which are kept as part of the museum archives.
Air: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas Love Field Airport (domestic flights). Rail: Train: Union Station. DART (Light Rail System): West End Station or Union Station. Road: DART Trolleybus: Route 706 to Union Station or West End Station. Bus: Public services.
Contact Addresses
Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, 411 Elm Street, Dallas, TX 75202, USA
Tel: (214) 747 6660
Website: www.jfk.org
Tourist Information
Texas Economic Development, Tourism Division
1700 North Congress, Suite 200, PO Box 12728, Austin, TX 78711-2728, USA
Tel: (512) 462 9191 or (800) 888 8839 (toll free USA and Canada only). Fax: (512) 936 0450.
E-mail: bradleys@fded.state.tx.us
Website: www.traveltex.com
State of Texas Tourism Office
c/o First Public Relations, Molasses House, Clove Hitch Quay, Plantation Wharf, London SW11 3TN, UK
Tel: (020) 7978 5233. Fax: (020) 7924 3134.
Location
United States
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