The motorcade was to take 45 minutes. The direction the motorcade would travel would be from Main Street, then through the Elm and Houston Street intersection then on to the Trade Mart via Stemmons Freeway. They made their way along the motorcade greeting people. Little did the world know what would happen after the President's limousine turned onto Elm Street. On his right was the Texas School Book Depository building and on his left was Dealey plaza.
Shots rang out and history changed in an instant.
President John F. Kennedy had been shot along with Texas Governor Connally. Secret Service rushed the car to Dallas' Parkland Hospital where at 1 p.m., the President was pronounced dead. Now decades later, people still travel to Dallas on a daily basis to visit the scene of the tragic event. A museum, The Sixth Floor Museum , now sits in the Texas School Book Depository building. Since the museum opened in 1989, over four million people have visited the museum.