Dallas Travel Guide
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One of the main reasons that Dallas features so prominently in the psyche of most Americans is that it was in the city on 22 November 1963 that John F Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza. Hardly surprising for an event that not only shocked the world, but also redefined politics, there are several museums that deal with the events of that day, and the main two, those which most visitors will want to visit are the Conspiracy Museum that caters for the 85% of people who cannot bring themselves to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact the only shooter, and the Sixth Floor Museum, which is located in the room in the Texan Book Repository from where Oswald may possibly have (in truth, actually did) fire the shots that killed Kennedy.
The city of Dallas is truly vast, in size, but also in the huge civic pride on display. The city lies along the Trinity River in north east Texas, and is one of the largest cities in the country, the home to well over 1 million people who would all say that they would not want to live anywhere else.
The city thrives on its image as a forward thinking and dynamic city, but Dallas is also a place where you can find time to relax and enjoy yourself in one of the many large parks around the city, or wander through one of Dallas' enormous shopping malls or museums, before spending you evenings at one of the buzzing bars and nightclubs in the downtown area and dancing until dawn.
The greatest criticism that can be levelled at the city is that its lack of a truly defining structure that could act as inspiration for the city, and has a certain architectural blandness that makes it seem like "anytown". Probably because of this ambiguity, the city has starred as the backdrop for dozens of movies including "Logan's Run", "Robocop", and "Slap her She's French", not to mention the long running soap opera that came to define the greed and glory era of the 1980s, "Dallas".
Dallas has been at the forefront of the American psyche for as long as the country has existed, a city that has given the country some of its greatest moments, and one of its worst. Interestingly Dallas was the first city in America where the professional football team got professional support in the form of cheerleaders.
