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JFK Memorial 1970 | Architect: Phillip Johnson | Dallas, TX

This simple, concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Dallas near where the President was assassinated. The JFK Memorial was the first memorial by famed American architect and Kennedy family friend, Philip Johnson. The monument was approved by Jacqueline Kennedy herself. Johnson called it “a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but near the sky and earth.” Unlike most memorials, the citizens of Dallas funded its construction entirely.

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