# Where was John F Kennedy assassinated? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 15, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320 "2005-10-15T03:33:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320/21 "2005-10-16T13:32:38Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > There’s actually an X on the spot in the road where he was hit. I was in Dallas a few years ago, but didn’t make it to the Book Depository, which is now a museum. I stood on that very X to have my picture taken just one month ago. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320/22 "2005-10-16T14:02:42Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > For those of us who were alive in 1963, particularly those who were young, we had no CNN, no cable, no intarweb, so our world was differently proportioned. Important events in places we hadn’t been were big, because we knew of them only via Walter Cronkite, or the Huntley-Brinkley report. Woot! Someone else understands (even to the point of using the word _INTARWEB_!) I’m going to bed before I make a fool of myself! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320/23 "2005-10-16T14:19:00Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > For those of us who were alive in 1963, particularly those who were young, we had no CNN, no cable, no intarweb, so our world was differently proportioned. Important events in places we hadn’t been were big, because we knew of them only via Walter Cronkite, or the Huntley-Brinkley report. I was born and lived in Dallas until a few months after the JFK affair. For quite a while I worked in downtown Dallas and passed Dealey Plaza twice a day, so I knew it wasn’t a very big place. But, as others say, strangers and tourists always thought it would be much bigger. I lived in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and graduated from Sunset High in 1959–I used to be able to draw detailed maps of the route taken by Oswald when he left the scene on that fateful day. I’ve seen many a movie in the now famous Texas Theater where he was captured. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320/24 "2005-10-16T14:33:10Z")
“Goodnight, David.” “Goodnight, Chet.” ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320/25 "2005-10-16T15:59:40Z")
> [@pilot141](#): > > I can show you the exact spot on the pavement (convienently marked by an X) where Kennedy was hit You can actually make out the X on the pavement in Google Earth. I don’t know how to create a link for Google Earth, but the coordinates are 32 44 51 N, 96 48 31.20 W. Look at it from about 500 feet (which is about 80 feet above the ground level) and you can make it out. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320/26 "2005-10-16T16:03:57Z")
Sorry, I screwed up the coordinates. You can get there by entering exactly this into the search area in Google Earth: “32 46 44.50 N, 96 48 31.22 W”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-john-f-kennedy-assassinated/326320.md?page=1)