The corner window of the Sixth Floor Museum is where Kennedy’s accused assassin is said to have taken his shot. The boxes are duplicates of the originals, stacked precisely as they appear in crime scene photographs from Nov. 22, 1963. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
The sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository building takes visitors back to the day President Kennedy was shot and provides an in-depth look at his legacy. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
The suit worn by Dallas homicide Det. Jim Leavelle on the day he was escorting Lee Harvey Oswald at Dallas Police headquarters is superimposed alongside a photo of Jack Ruby shooting the accused assassin. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
Sandra Saldana of San Antonio and Samuel Goodman of Rockville, Md., look at displays in the Sixth Floor Museum. (Matt Rourke / AFP/Getty Images )
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Items for sale at the Sixth Floor Museum gift shop. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
A white X in the roadway, as seen from the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository building, marks where Kennedy was struck. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
Visitors take photos on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza in Dallas, about a block away from Dealey Plaza. The memorial, designed by Philip Johnson, was built in 1970 to mark the assassination of JFK. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
Flanked by Jacqueline Kennedy and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, Vice President Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office following the assassination of President Kennedy. The image is one of many on display at the Sixth Floor Museum. (Cecil Stoughton / AFP/Getty Images)
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The Sixth Floor Museum highlights Kennedy’s presidency along with events like the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. (AFP / Getty Images)