Texas School Book Depository
A partial 1903 reconstruction of an earlier commercial building that had been mostly destroyed by lightning, in 1963 it was used to store textbooks. Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots from the 6th floor that killed President John F. Kennedy.
In the 1980s, a renovation converted the upper floors into the Sixth Floor Museum, which is dedicated to the legacy and death of John F. Kennedy. Upon entering, visitors face a dramatic quote from JFK: “History, after all, is the memory of a nation.” The museum proceeds to jog those memories with exhibits, artifacts and videos offering a sense of American life in the early 1960s and the subsequent impact of JFK’s assassination. The most sobering portion of the museum is the spot near the sixth-floor window where the fatal shots were fired. The area remains in its original school book depository setting, and its Plexiglas enclosure provides an eerie window to the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963.
Texas School Book Depository
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