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- <text id=89TT0568>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: American Notes:Dallas
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- DALLAS
- See Oswald's Lair -- for $4
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Now, for just $4 ($3 for senior citizens), one can ride an
- elevator to the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book
- Depository in Dallas and see the perch from which Lee Harvey
- Oswald gunned down a President. The book cartons have been
- arranged just the way Oswald placed them 25 years ago to avoid
- being seen by co-workers. True, a clear screen keeps tourists
- from entering the assassin's lair, but the view of Dealey Plaza
- from accessible windows is about the same. One cannot, however,
- bring a rifle to check out the sights. A metal detector has
- been set up to spot gun toters.
- </p>
- <p> The controversial display opened this week, after years of
- local arguments over how, if at all, the site should be
- preserved. A private nonprofit foundation raised $1.3 million to
- create the museum, and Dallas County, which owns the building,
- built a reception area with a $2.2 million bond issue. The
- Kennedy family, which was known to oppose the project, was not
- consulted on the plans.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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