Posted on June 3, 2012 by Canicus

Margaret Hill Hunt Bridge

I recently visited the JFK Museum in Dallas. You are not allowed to take pictures inside the museum, but I took some outside. This shot was taken in the Dealy Plaza across the street from the museum. We are looking through a colonnade in the plaza at the new Margaret Hill Hunt Bridge, the first of three designed for Dallas by Santiago Calatrava. It is the only one completed at this time. The economy is going to have to improve significantly before the others can be built. Construction on the bridge began in spring 2007 with the steel being manufactured in an Italian steel factory often used by Calatrava to manufacture his designs. The bridge cost $93 million, its total length will be 1,870 feet (570 m) with a main-span of 1,197 feet (365 m), and an apex-height of 400 feet (122 m).

School Book Depository

The JFK Museum is located on the sixth and seventh floors of the old Texas School Book Depository. The main exhibit is located on the sixth floor; the seventh floor contains related art work. The sixth floor corner window (which appears to be open in the picture at the right) is the location from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired on the presidential motorcade killing President Kennedy. The museum contains exhibits outlining President Kennedy’s life, the assassination and its aftermath. There is also a film shown in the museum. I hadn’t visited it until a couple of years ago when my nephew, his son and a friend visited me.