Sixty-two years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Pictures before, ...

"We knew about President Lincoln and perhaps President Garfield. But that was history, distant and dusty. This, the slaying in Dallas, was real, immediate and yet unimaginable," Terry Woster writes.

The plaza, a city park and memorial built to honor prominent early Dallas residents, was a Works Progress Administration project completed in 1940 and named for George Dealey, who had been a civic ...