Dealey Plaza is a depression. It's a shallow basin on the western edge of downtown, framed by concrete structures called pergolas and peristyles that were built by the Works Progress Administration.

A tourist views the JFK assassination site from behind a graffiti-covered fence atop the grassy knoll. Chipped paint and cracked plaster can be seen on the south pergola in Dealey Plaza. The ...

Critic's Notebook: Dealey Plaza, the site of JFK's assassination, is a curious hybrid of intersection and accidental monument, an unlovely, architecturally unresolved prick on the Texas city's ...

Dealey Plaza Revisited A web-only companion to the November 1998 issue, ... On the North side of Elm, in Dealey Plaza the pergola afforded a good view of the presidential motorcade.

Now, almost 50 years after the JFK assassination, Dealey Plaza — like Pearl Harbor, like Ground Zero, like Newtown, Conn. — is a place name that evokes a national tragedy.

Dealey Plaza is named for George Bannerman Dealey, longtime publisher of the Dallas Morning News. It was created when the Trinity River, which once flowed near this part of Dallas and often ...

When we think of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 40 years ago this weekend, many of us are transported to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the open, park-like space with its wide boulevards ...

One moment defines Dealey Plaza. But long before that, Dealey Plaza defined Dallas. Its significance has been lost. And perhaps that was on purpose. But it is being reinvented and rediscovered.

Dealey Plaza: A place Dallas has long tried to avoid and forget. Policy. ... Although a modest two-phase project to restore the plaza's New Deal landscape and pergolas is nearly complete, ...

The Bryan Pergola at the top of the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza has always struck me as an ugly monument to everything depressing in the history of Dallas. Built in the “early commercial style ...

Abe Zapruder had no idea when he took his 8-millimeter camera down to Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 that he would record President Kennedy's assassination.The footage he captured, less than ...

Dealey Plaza is finally beginning to look like it was built to look, thanks to Segura. She led the effort to raise $1.5 million to restore the plaza. Dead grass, crumbling pergolas, and inoperable ...