Sixth Floor Window
by Joan Carroll
Title
Sixth Floor Window
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Even after more than 50 years, Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum continue to draw the curious. Dealey Plaza, in the historic West End district Dallas, Texas (U.S.), is the location of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The Dealey Plaza Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in 1993 to preserve Dealey Plaza, street rights-of-way, and buildings and structures by the plaza visible from the assassination site, that have been identified as witness locations or as possible assassin locations. The infamous 'sixth floor window' (the one below the top window) is the location from which the Warren Commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. At the time the building was the Texas School Book Depository building, used for the storage of school textbooks and related materials and an order-fulfillment center by the Texas School Book Depository Company. Oswald was a temporary employee here. The Texas School Book Depository Company moved out in 1970 and the building was sold at auction to Aubrey Mayhew, a Nashville, Tennessee music producer and collector of Kennedy memorabilia, by the owner D. H. Byrd. In 1972, ownership reverted to Byrd, and the building was purchased in 1977 by the government of Dallas County. After renovating the lower five floors of the building for use as county government offices, the Dallas County Administration Building was dedicated on March 29, 1981. On President's Day 1989, the sixth floor opened to the public (for an admission charge) as the Sixth Floor Museum of assassination-related exhibits. On President's Day 2002, the seventh-floor gallery opened. Today a webcam sits in the sixth floor window giving a live view of Dealey Plaza.
FEATURED PHOTO, Balcony Window And Doors Photography group, 2/23/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Out Of The Ordinary group, 2/16/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Doors And Windows Photography Only 3 group, 2/14/15
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February 13th, 2015
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JOHN TELFER
Joan, Great find and a great story, I have read so much on JFK and still find everything so interesting great photo, L/F
Joan Carroll
thank you Ivete for the feature in the Balcony Window And Doors Photography group, 2/23/15
Joan Carroll
thank you Faithe! They have changed the museum and displays alot in the last few years.
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