Dal-Tex Building

The Dal-Tex Building (right), across the street from the Texas School Book Depository Building

Warren Commission exhibit #876 showing the location of the Dal-Tex Building

The Dal-Tex Building is a seven story office building located at 501 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Its location, within Dealey Plaza and it being across the street, adjacent to the Texas School Book Depository, has made it famous and put it at the center of several conspiracy theories^[1] concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The Dal-Tex Building, sometimes called the Dallas-Textiles Building, the Dal-Tex Market Building, or the Dal-Tex Mart Building, was a center of the textile business in Dallas. Abraham Zapruder, who shot the famous Zapruder film, had his offices in the Dal-Tex Building.

Numerous witnesses to the assassination reported hearing gunfire coming from the direction of the building. In fact, the Dal-Tex building was one of the first buildings to be sealed off in the minutes following the murder.^[2] Several arrests were made following the building's lockdown;^[3] there is record of a young man dressed in a black leather jacket and black gloves who was taken to the Sheriff's Office (also located within the Dal-Tex building) but he was never charged and no records of his name exist. Another suspicious person detained in the Dal-Tex building was Jim Braden, a career-criminal with Mafia ties who had recently changed his name^[4] and was thus released by authorities. Furthermore, the Dal-Tex building aligns directly with the trajectory of the bullet that hit the curb, injuring bystander James Tague.^[5]

in 1978, a scientific analysis of acoustical evidence presented before the House Select Committee on Assassinations pinpointed the Dal-Tex building as a possible source of gunfire.^[6]

References

1. ^ A Second Primer of Assassination Theories, Esquire, May 1967
2. ^ Who's Who In The JFK Assassination: An A to Z Encyclopedia by Michael Benson, Citadel Press, 1998
3. ^ JFK: The Second Plot by Matthew Smith, Mainstream Publishing, 2002
4. ^ Contract on America by David E. Scheim, S.P.I. Books,1992
5. ^ Annals of the Joint Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research and the National Academy for Educational Research 1998-1999 by Robert M. Hashway, University Press of America, 2001
6. ^ Conspiracy by Anthony Summers, McGraw-Hill, 1989

See also

• List of buildings and structures in Dallas, Texas

Coordinates: 32°46′47.46″N 96°48′28.62″W / 32.77985°N 96.80795°W / 32.77985; -96.80795