Close to sixty years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assasinated while riding in a Cadillac down Elm Street in Dealey Plaza in the heart of Dallas. Though conspiracy theorist fans may disagree, it seems pretty clear to me that the man that killed JFK was Lee Harvey Oswald, and that he fatally shot the president from his perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 pm that day. Above you can see the corner Oswald, a one month employee of the Texas School Book Depository, crouched down in to aim his gun, hidden by boxes of textbooks.
The building, pictured above, is now the Dallas County Administration Building, but the sixth floor has been converted into a museum. You are led through the early 60's and JFK's presidency, and then to the events of November 22nd . I learned a few things I did not know before. I did not know that Oswald worked in the building. I did not know he was questioned in the building's cafeteria minutes after the shooting, then freely walked out the building moments later. Within the hour, he shot a policeman dead, then was arrested, questioned, and then himself was shot dead by Jack Ruby, a night club owner, two days later.
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