One of the most shocking tourist spots in Dallas is the Texas School Book Depository building at the crossroads of the Elm Street and the Houston Street. The building housed a privately-run company that stored and distributed school textbooks in various parts of Texas until 1963, but became infamous on the incident of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The president was shot from the sixth floor of the building and pronounced dead when he was rushed to the hospital. At the same time, one of the staffs of the company was charged with the murder.

In the 1970, the company moved out of the building and there were plans for demolition. Instead the first five floors of the building were taken over by Dallas County for setting up its administrative office. The sixth floor and two other floors were converted to a museum for visitors to find out about more about Kennedy's assassination. The museum was opened to public in 1981 for exhibition and special events.

The museum is recorded as a historical landmark in Texas. It has a wide collection of photos, documents, videos, audio tapes and different artifacts that are associated with the assassination. Today, the museum has a collection of over 35,000 items. The curators are still striving to get more information and add to the rich collection of items. It was in May 2010, that a group of burglars made an effort to steal some of the precious collections from the sixth floor of the museum. However, they failed to do so when confronted by a security guard. The security has been tightened even more after the incident.

The Texas School Book Depository is now known as the Dallas County Administration Building. This was the earlier name of a seven storied building that faces Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

It is situated on the northwestern part of Elm and North Houstan Streets at the west of Downtown Dallas. The address of the building is 411 Elm Street, Dallas TX.

The building became famous for its association with the assassination of the former President of U.S, John F. Kennedy.

According to the investigative departments of the United States government, a building employee by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald had shot the U.S President from a window on the sixth floor on the south east direction resulting in the President being killed.

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The Texas School Book Depository Company had moved out of the building in 1970 with the building being purchased by Dallas County government in 1977.

After renovation of the bottom five floors, this building came to be used as offices of the county government. It came to be known as the Dallas County Administration Building from March 29, 1981.

On the President's Day in the year 1989, the sixth floor of this building opened its doors to the public with an entry charge as the Sixth Floor Museum.

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The Sixth Floor Museum was originally known as the Texas School Book Depository Museum. This was the name of the museum during the time of John F. Kennedy's assassination because the place was then well known for distributing school books. The Texas School Book Depository Company left the building in 1970 when this place was utilized to build the Sixth Floor Museum. So book your Dallas Texas hotels so you can come down to this unique museum for a wonderful time.

This museum chronicles and captures the life of John F. Kennedy. Beginning from his legacy as an important leader to his assassination in Dallas, this museum tries to capture all the moments for future generations to be educated about. Exhibitions include photographs, documents, eyewitness accounts and a lot more facts which result in a unique tour of the museum. Some events you can look forward to are:

- A Photographer's Story: Bob Jackson and the Kennedy Assassination

- Call to Action which documents Kennedy's attempts to ask for public encouragement in various campaigns

- Covering Chaos-this is a documentation of how journalists captured the important moments of Kennedy's assassination

- John F. Kennedy and The Memory of a Nation forms their permanent exhibit

http://www.jfk.org/go/about/history-of-the-texas-school-book-depository

Take a look at admission details:

Adult-$13.50 U.S.

Youth (Ages 6-18)-$12.50 U.S.

Senior (Ages 65+)-$12.50 U.S.

Children (Ages 0-5)-Free or $3.50

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Where is the Texas School Book Depository Museum located?

411 Elm Street

Dallas, TX 75202, United States

Phone number:

+1 214-747-6660