Justice

The Places That Defined JFK's Assassination, Then and Now

One photographer lines up images of Dallas on its darkest day with his own photographs from today.
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In a city that would surely rather forget, there are a surprising amount of physical reminders of November 22, 1963, Dallas's darkest day.

Despite a movement for its demolition in the 1970s, the building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at the Presidential Motorcade remains, converted into a government offices with a sixth floor museum devoted to the assassination. Dealey Plaza, where Dallasites got their final glimpse of a smiling, waving Kennedy (and where they left flowers in mourning the following days) looks exactly the same as it always has.