Dallas

Dallas, Texas - darkometer rating : 1 - The major commercial, financial and transport hub in Texas, USA . In terms of dark tourism the city is an important destination due mainly to the legacy of one the highest-profile assassinations in history, that of President John F Kennedy in 1963. The site and associated museum are premier tourist sights in general and amongst the most widely discussed in academic dark tourism research. > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos What there is to see: Dallas as a city isn't the most alluring by any standards and wouldn't be with regard to dark tourism either, if it wasn't for one the world's premier dark museums: the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, from where JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on 22 November 1963. Round the corner from Dealey Plaza is another museum of dark appeal, namely Dallas's own incarnation of a Holocaust museum. - the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza - Dallas Holocaust Museum The JFK assassination is commemorated not just around Dealey Plaza itself (described in the Sixth Floor Museum entry under 'dark combinations') but also on a separate John F Kennedy Memorial Plaza two blocks further into downtown. It only features a rather cold and stark whitewashed concrete monument, but can just as well be taken in too when in the area anyway. Location: in the centre of north-eastern Texas, USA , some 220 miles (330 km) south of Oklahoma City to the north and a bit more than that from Houston in the south.