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 ...

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 ...

Originally the 'gateway to Dallas,' Dealey Plaza became the site of a national tragedy, President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Now it's a jumbled urban space: traffic bottle-neck, tourist site ...

Visitors, researchers at Dealey Plaza speculate on contents of 80,000 JFK assassination files released Tuesday. Story by Richard Solomon • 2h. Since that fateful day in November 1963, ...