John F. Kennedy Memorial - Dallas, Texas
Posted by: txoilgas
N 32° 46.722 W 096° 48.385
14S E 705446 N 3628883
This simple, concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Dallas 200 yards from where the President was assassinated.
Waymark Code: WM5N8B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2009
Views: 48
It is a space for contemplation, neither open nor closed. the 50 foot square enclosure with 30 foot high concrete walls would be oppressive, if not open in the center of two opposite walls, and along almost all of the base.
In the center is a black granite slab, deliberately too square to be a tomb, inscribed simply with the President's name.
It is intended to be "not a memorial to the pain and sorrow of death," but "a permanent tribute to the joy and excitement of one man's life."