.dleuty

gallery

John F. Kennedy Memorial
Market Street/Commerce Street
Dallas, Texas,USA

This simple, concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Dallas 200 yards east of Deeley Plaza, where the President was assassinated. It is a space for contemplation, neither open nor closed. The 50 foot square enclosure with 30 foot high concrete walls, open in the center of the north and south, and along almost all of the base.

In the center is a black square granite slab, simply inscribed with the President's name.

"Not a memorial to the pain and sorrow of death, but a permanent tribute to the joy and excitement of one man's life." -- Philip Johnson 1970