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John F. Kennedy Memorial

Address: Market St. between Main and Commerce Sts., Downtown Dallas, Dallas, TX | Map It

Category: Memorials/Monuments
Location: Dallas

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Fodor's Review:

Designed by architect Philip Johnson, this stark, square memorial is a short walk from Dealey Plaza, at Main and Market streets. It was designed to honor the president, not mark the assassination. Some critics and tourists are troubled by the lack of ornamentation or explanation. Johnson, though, delivered a design that he felt honored the president's legacy and his family's wishes: "Kennedy was such a remarkable man I didn't want to have a statue but sought rather something very humble and spartan. It was essential that there would be no sentimentalizing of Kennedy; he would have disapproved anyway!"

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