Dealey Plaza facts for kids

Dealey Plaza with the former Texas School Book Depository Building (left), and the Dal-Tex Building (right) in the background

Dealey Plaza is a district in the West End of downtown Dallas, Texas.

It is known for being the location where the assassination of John F. Kennedy took place on November 22, 1963. The plaza was named as a National Historic Landmark in 1993.

The former Texas School Book Depository building where both the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy with a rifle. The plaza also contains a grassy knoll on the northwest side where the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined that there was "...a high probability” that there was a second assassin that also fired at the President, but missed him.

Images for kids

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  Kennedy Memorial

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  Dealey Plaza in 1969. The Texas School Book Depository can be seen in the background.

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  Warren Commission diagram of plaza

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  The path used by the motorcade. North is almost directly to the left.

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  National Historic Landmark plaque at Dealey Plaza.

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  The Grassy Knoll and Bryan pergola on the north side of Elm Street

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  Dealey Plaza (2015) as viewed from Reunion Tower. Shown are the Texas School Book Depository and the "grassy knoll" in the upper center, the seven-story Dal-Tex Building, and the Dallas County Records Building.

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  A similar view of Dealey Plaza from the mid-1990s also includes the Art Deco Terminal Annex Federal Building in the lower-right foreground, the former Dallas County Courthouse made of red sandstone, and the Dallas County Criminal Courts Building adjacent to the Dallas County Records Building.

See also

In Spanish: Plaza Dealey para niños