The color photographs on this page were taken during the summer of 2001, nearly thirty-eight years after President Kennedy was assassinated at Dealey Plaza. Visitors may be surprised to learn that apart from some new buildings in the background and the removal of the Hertz Rent-a-Car sign from atop the old School Book Depository Building, the scene is remarkably unchanged. Dealey Plaza is triangular in shape. It is named for George Bannerman Dealey, longtime editor of the Dallas Morning News. A statue of Dealey, who was born in England, overlooks the plaza, through which Dallas' three principal thoroughfares run: Commerce Street, Main Street, and Elm Street - the street on which the assassination took place.

This is the old Texas School Book Depository Building, as seen from the corner of Elm and Houston Streets. It was from an open window on the sixth floor of this building that the shots were fired that killed President Kennedy and wounded Texas Governor John Connally. Originally a farm implement warehouse, the building today houses county offices and the much-visited Sixth Floor Museum.

This historical marker was placed at Dealey Plaza and dedicated on November 22, 1993, the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination. The ceremonies featured an address by Nellie Connally, wife of the late Governor and the only surviving passenger of the vehicle at which the assassin fired. The plaque designates Dealey Plaza as a National Historic Landmark.

An "X," which can barely be seen in this photograph, marks the spot on Elm Street where the shots that killed President Kennedy struck him as he was riding in the presidential limousine. This photo was taken from the same pediment on which Abraham Zapruder was standing when he took his famous footage of the assassination scene.

This is a view of Elm Street, as seen from the so-called "Grassy Knoll." It shows the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets, with the Dallas County Records Building (the white building) on the corner and the old County Jail beside it. The blue car in the photograph is almost over the spot where the Presidential limousine was passing on that fateful day when the shots were fired that killed JFK.

This is a view of the so-called "Grassy Knoll," looking west on Elm Street. After President Kennedy was shot, the limousine passed under the railroad bridge seen here and then turned right on to Stemmons Freeway, taking him to nearby Parkland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

This memorial to President Kennedy was erected by the City of Dallas in 1966. Designed by Phillip Johnson of New York, it takes the form of a centotaph, or "empty tomb."

The old Dallas Municipal Building on Harwood Street, several blocks east of Dealey Plaza, is where Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was mortally wounded by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963. The Main Street parking garage entrance seen here leads down a ramp to the spot where Ruby emerged from a crowd of reporters and shot Oswald as point blank range as he was about to be transferred from the city to the county jail.