Dal-Tex Building
{{Short description|Office building in Dallas, Texas, United States}}
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| name = Dal-Tex Building
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| former_names = Kingman Texas Implements Company Building, John Deere Plow Company Building
| alternate_names = Dallas Textile Building
| status = Complete
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| caption = View from southwest, with the former Texas School Book Depository at left, the Dal-Tex Building, center, and the Dallas County Records Annex, right (2003)
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| architectural_style = Sullivanesque
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| address = 501 Elm St.,
Dallas, Texas
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| architecture_firm = Hubbell and Greene
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| references = {{Cite journal|url={{NHLS url|id=93001607}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Dealey Plaza Historic District|date=August 1991 |format=PDF |author=Dallas County Historical Foundation |author-link=Dallas County Historical Foundation |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=June 7, 2012 }} and {{NHLS url|id=93001607|title=Accompanying photos and maps, various dates|photos=y}} {{small|(3.14 MB)}}{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00002/aaa-00002.html |title=Greene LaRoche and Dahl: An Inventory of their Collection, 1902-1953 |work=Alexander Architectural Archive |publisher=University of Texas Libraries |location=Austin, Texas |access-date=June 7, 2012}}
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| name = Texas School Book Depository
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| nrhp_type = cp
| partof = West End Historic District
| designated_nrhp_type = November 14, 1978
| nrhp_type2 = nhldcp
| partof2 = Dealey Plaza Historic District
| partof2_refnum = 93001607{{NRISref|version=2013a}}
| designated_nrhp_type2 = October 12, 1993
| designated_other1_name = Dallas Landmark Historic District
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| designated_other1_abbr = DLMKHD
| designated_other1_color = #F5DEB3
| designated_other1_date = October 6, 1975{{cite web|title=West End Historic District|url=http://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/historicpreservation/Documents/West%20End%20Report.pdf|author=Staff|date=August 4, 2016|page=3|publisher=Department of Urban Planning, City of Dallas|access-date=August 2, 2018}}
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The Dal-Tex Building is a seven-story office building located at 501 Elm Street in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. The building is on the northeast corner of Elm and North Houston streets, across the street from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, the scene of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. 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.
Designed by architects James P. Hubbell and Herbert Miller Greene as a warehouse for the Kingman Texas Implement Company, the building has been described as one of the "earliest Sullivanesque designs in Texas". The building has also been reported to show the Prairie School's influence on Greene.{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/dallas.html |title=Architectural Legacy: Dallas |work=The Architectural Legacy of Herbert Miller Greene |publisher=University of Texas Libraries |location=Austin, Texas |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418151818/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/dallas.html |archive-date=April 18, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Assassination of Kennedy
Abraham Zapruder, who shot the famous Zapruder film, had his offices on the fourth floor of the Dal-Tex Building.{{cite news |last=Bloom |first=John |date=November 22, 1983 |title=Film a compact, chilling, suspense story |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QaQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P-8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5923%2C640119 |newspaper=The Citizen |location=Ottawa |page=12 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}
=Conspiracy theories=
Several conspiracy theories in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy allege that some of the shots fired at the President's motorcade originated from the Dal-Tex Building.{{cite journal |date=May 1967 |title=A Second Primer of Assassination Theories |journal=Esquire |pages=104 ff |url=http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theories/Second_Primer/Second_primer.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007101304/http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theories/Second_Primer/Second_primer.html |archive-date=2011-10-07 }} In September 1966, Triumph{{'s}} Lawrence R. Brown published an article stating that the bullet trajectories were traced back to a second-floor window in the Dal-Tex Building.{{cite news |last=Chamberlain |first=John |author-link=John Chamberlain (journalist) |date=November 30, 1966 |title=Rumors Rife In JFK Case |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IpYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9qkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=855%2C5683008 |newspaper=The Sumter Daily Item |location=Sumter, South Carolina |page=8-A |access-date=April 11, 2015}} Jim Garrison told Playboy in September 1967 that the building was "in all probability" one of four locations in which snipers fired at Kennedy.{{cite news |author= |title=Garrison Claims 'Guerilla Team Of 7' Killed JFK |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PTo0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=846%2C1628241 |newspaper=The Miami News |location=Miami, Florida |page=2A |date=September 11, 1967 |access-date=April 11, 2015}} Garrison later claimed that there were four assassination teams, each consisting of a rifleman and a lookout, including one on the seventh floor of the building.{{cite news |author= |title=Garrison Claims Foreign Help |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PbUdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6026%2C633176 |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |page=3 |date=July 12, 1968 |access-date=April 11, 2015}} In November 1967, Josiah Thompson stated that his study allowed him to conclude that there were four shots from three different firing positions during the assassination. Thompson also concluded that the Dal-Tex Building was located in a zone also including the Dallas County Records Building and parts of the Dallas Criminal Courts Building that he determined could have been the location for the source of the second shot.{{cite news |last=Winship |first=Frederick M. |date=November 17, 1967 |title=Study Of Assassination Claims Conspiracy By Trio |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fRFNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IkgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2428%2C2512133 |newspaper=The Bryan Times |location=Bryan, Ohio |agency=UPI |pages=1–2 |access-date=April 11, 2015}} He said that a young man was arrested just minutes after the shooting, taken in for questioning by police, then disappeared in the confusion.
In the May 1970 issue of Computers and Automation, Richard E. Sprague said that he used computer analysis of still photographs and movie films taken in Dealey Plaza.{{cite news |author= |title=Computer "Clears" Oswald; Kennedy Case Studied |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SF4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M_gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1650%2C378833 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Spokane, Washington |agency=AP |page=1 |date=May 2, 1970 |access-date=April 11, 2015}} Implicating four gunmen and at least 50 conspirators in Kennedy's assassination, he concluded that two shots had come from the Dal-Tex Building. Five years later in September 1975, Sprague and L. Fletcher Prouty stated that their study of still photographs and film of the assassination revealed that the fourth floor of the Dal-Tex Building was one of three or four firing positions during the assassination.{{cite news |author= |title=2 Claim Conspiracy Proof in JFK's Death |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SiMWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zhEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6431%2C544045 |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |agency=UPI |page=2 |date=September 4, 1975 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}
Photo gallery
File:Dal-Tex Bldg.jpg|The Dal-Tex Building (right), across the street from the Texas School Book Depository Building
File:Dealey Plaza.jpg|Warren Commission exhibit #876 showing the location of the Dal-Tex Building
See also
{{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|Texas}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.library.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/document.html?urn=urn%3Autlol%3Agreene.txu-aaa-gld00001&exh=Dallas&primSec=Dallas&pageq=3 Image of original architectural plans for the Elm Street elevation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091957/http://www.library.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/document.html?urn=urn:utlol:greene.txu-aaa-gld00001&exh=Dallas&primSec=Dallas&pageq=3 |date=2016-03-04 }}
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