Dallas, 50 years later: Fragments of history

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Dallas, 50 years later: Fragments of history

The former Texas School Book Depository building, left, now known as the Sixth Floor Museum overlooks Dealey Plaza in Dallas in 2013, where Lee Harvery Oswald fired from the building killing President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

This May 22, 1964 photo shows Dealey Plaza where U.S. President John F. Kennedy traveled down when shots claimed his life. The building at left is the Texas School Book Depository Building where Lee Harvery Oswald was determined to have fired the shots. (AP Photo/File)

In this photo taken in Dallas, the FAA control tower that was used in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy landed at Dallas' Love Field is shown. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

In this photo taken in 2013 in Dallas, passengers walk to a security checkpoint over a map of the world at Love Field. The map was one of the items preserved during an ongoing renovation of the terminal and was in the same location on Nov. 22, 1963 when Air Force One landed with President John F. Kennedy aboard. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

In this photo in 2013 in Dallas, a special viewing window that was custom built during the ongoing remodeling of the airport allows visitors to look out onto the area of the tarmac where Air Force One sat at Love Field on Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

This photo taken in Dallas shows a historical plaque standing at Love Field which proclaims that Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office at the airport on Nov. 22, 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Flags in background were flying half staff by order of President Obama after the passing of former Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

In this photo taken in 2013 in Dallas, four vertical pylons, center, mark the spot where Air Force One parked while at Love Field on Nov. 22, 1963, and is the view from a special window inside the airport's terminal placed especially for showcasing this location. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)

The former Texas School Book Depository, now the Sixth Floor Museum, overlooks Dealey Plaza in Dallas in 2013. The depository was the site where Lee Harvery Oswald fired a gun, killing President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Chris Carson of Ashville, North Carolina, visits the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial in downtown Dallas, in 2013. Church bells tolling throughout Dallas and a moment of silence at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 will mark the moment 50 years ago when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. A year of commemorative events organized by organizations throughout the city culminates this month with a solemn ceremony the city of Dallas has planned in Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy's motorcade was passing as shots rang out. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

An X marks the spot on Elm Street in2013 where the first bullet hit President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 near the former Texas School Book Depository, now known as the Sixth Floor Museum, background, on Dealey Plaza in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this photo made in 2013, a historical marker, right, marks the intersection where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippet in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Oswald was arrested nearby at the Texas Theater Nov. 22, 1963, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows the movie theater where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. (AP Photo/File)

The Texas Theater is shown in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas in 2013. Lee Harvery Oswald was arrested inside the theater Nov. 22, 1963, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this photo made in 2013, the seat that Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in when Dallas Police arrested him is illuminated at the Texas Theater in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Oswald was arrested here on Nov. 22, 1963, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this photo made in 2013, Eric Steele, who operates the Texas Theater, points simultaneously to the seat where Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting and the door where Dallas Police entered the theater to arrest him in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the theater Nov. 22, 1963, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald moved a few seats to the left before police were able to take him into custody. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this 2013 file photo, an image of an actress portraying Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, is projected in the garage of the Ruth Paine House Museum, in Irving. The museum is in the small, two-bedroom home that once belonged to Ruth Paine, who had befriended Marina and let her live there with her two daughters. (AP Photo/Rex C. Curry)

In this 2013 file photo, Patricia Hall stands for a photograph in the 5-by-14' room that Lee Harvey Oswald rented in 1963 at her family's rooming house in Dallas. Oswald stayed at the red brick house with white trim during the week while working his new job at the Texas School Book Depository, and on the weekends he returned to the suburb of Irving where his wife lived. Hall said she's been considering selling the house for years, but decided the time was right as this year marks the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination in downtown Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

A historical plaque tells of the pioneer history of Dealey Plaza in Dallas in 2013. The park was where Dallas was founded in 1841 and would also become the site of the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

An X marks the spot on Elm Street on Tuesday in 2013 where the first bullet hit President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 near the former Texas School Book Depository, now known as the Sixth Floor Museum, background, on Dealey Plaza in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

The Dallas Municipal Building is shown in downtown Dallas in 2013. Also known as "Old City Hall," it was in the parking garage of this building that nightclub owner Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald as he was being transferred, and in top floor jail where Oswald was held. The building served as city hall until the late 1970s and included the police department and jail. The Oswald related spots are not accessible to the public, but the building still houses the Municipal Court. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

This 2013 photo shows the front of the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. When a new Parkland hospital opens in the spring of 2015, the lobby will feature a timeline of events from the hospital's history, including Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this photo made in 2013, hospital workers walk down hallway featuring a display that includes portraits of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and the presidential seal at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Today, a plaque marks the original site of Trama Room 1 where doctors rushed to treat the mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. The Trauma Room 1 of Nov. 22, 1963, no longer exists and is now the radiology department at the hospital. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Today, a plaque tell the history of the death of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this 2013 photo, Dr. Robert McClelland holds the blood stained shirt he was wearing Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 when he treated President John F. Kennedy in the emergency room of the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. McClelland stood at the head of Kennedy's gurney to hold the retractor in the incision doctors were making to explore the president's wound. "As soon as I got into that position," McClelland recalled recently, "I was shocked ... I said to Dr. [Malcolm] Perry, 'My God, have you seen the back of his head?' I said, 'It's gone.'" (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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The former Texas School Book Depository building, left, now known as the Sixth Floor Museum overlooks Dealey Plaza in Dallas in 2013, where Lee Harvery Oswald fired from the building killing President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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