Dallas Trip Overview
This unique live narrated bus tour (small group, climate controlled) will take you on an unforgettable journey back in time to 1963 to see the places and re-live the events of the assassination of President Kennedy.
You will visit the grounds of Dealey Plaza and the famous 6th Floor Museum, of course, but your group will also follow the “trail” of the assassination events. Spellbinding details and the background story leading up to Nov. 22 and beyond will fascinate and captivate you, providing new insight into this tragic, human drama. Tour includes exclusive access to Oswald’s Rooming House.
The CityPass option includes admissions to the Sixth Floor Museum (ending March 1st 2022), Dallas Holocaust and Human RIghts Museum (starting March 1st 2022) Reunion Tower GeO-Deck, the Perot Museum AND the Dallas Zoo OR the George W. Bush Library, 4 attractions in total. All attractions visits are self-guided, you need transportation to reach some of the attractions.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Dallas, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Dallas, Texas, United States
This unique live narrated bus tour (small group, climate controlled) will take you on an unforgettable journey back in time to 1963 to see the places and re-live the events of the assassination of President Kennedy.
You will visit the grounds of Dealey Plaza and the famous 6th Floor Museum, of course, but your group will also follow the “trail” of the assassination events. Spellbinding details and the background story leading up to Nov. 22 and beyond will fascinate and captivate you, providing new insight into this tragic, human drama. Tour includes exclusive access to Oswald’s Rooming House.
The CityPass option includes admissions to the Sixth Floor Museum (ending March 1st 2022), Dallas Holocaust and Human RIghts Museum (starting March 1st 2022) Reunion Tower GeO-Deck, the Perot Museum AND the Dallas Zoo OR the George W. Bush Library, 4 attractions in total. All attractions visits are self-guided, you need transportation to reach some of the attractions.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Main Street and Market Street, Dallas, TX 75202
See the Philip Johnson designed Memorial for JFK
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Dallas Municipal Building, 106 S Harwood St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA
The Dallas Municipal Building is a Dallas Landmark located along S. Harwood Street between Main and Commerce Street in the Main Street District of downtown Dallas, Texas that served as the city’s fourth City Hall. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and jailed in the Municipal Building on November 22, 1963. Two days later, he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby while being led out by police in the basement garage.
Stop At: Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark District, 500 Main St, Dallas, TX 75202-3521
Called the “birthplace of Dallas”. It was the location of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963. The Dealey Plaza Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in 1993 to preserve Dealey Plaza, street rights-of-way, buildings and structures by the plaza visible from the assassination site, that have been identified as witness locations or as possible locations for assassins.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Grassy Knoll, Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202
The grassy knoll is a small, sloping hill inside the Dealey Plaza and adjacent by the former Texas School Book Depository. It became well known following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The knoll was above Kennedy and to his right (west and north) during the assassination on November 22, 1963.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Oswald Rooming House Tour, 1026 N Beckley Ave, Dallas, TX 75203-1331
This tour includes exclusive access to Oswald’s Rooming House. This is the place where Lee Harvey Oswald was living at the time of the president’s assassination. We will also visit the location where Oswald’s infamous rifle picture was taken.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: J.D. Tippit memorial, E 10th St &, N Patton Ave, Dallas, TX 75203, USA
We will visit the location where 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Tippit was shot dead in a residential neighborhood in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas.
Pass By: The Texas Theatre, 231 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208-4510
Numerous witness accounts describe Oswald on the run after shooting Officer Tippit at the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue. Taxi driver William Scoggins claimed Oswald, revolver in hand, muttered something along the lines of “Poor dumb cop” as he headed away from the site of the Tippit ambush on his way to the Texas Theater.
Pass By: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, 411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202-3301
If you purchase the option that includes the entrance to the JFK Museum at Dealey Plaza, we will leave you at the museum’s entrance at the end of the tour. You can skip the line and go directly to the visitors’ desk to collect your headsets equipment for a self-guided tour, the museum visit generally takes 40-60 minutes.
