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D in
the Heart of Texas
Jerry T. Dealey
The JFK Assassination Researcher's essential guide to the politics and history of Dallas, G. B. Dealey, and Dealey Plaza
The “Grassy Knoll”, the Texas School
Book Depository, and the “Triple Underpass” -- many people across the planet
can quickly envision the north side of Dealey Plaza when they hear any of these
phrases. The location of the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, is
well known. Many thousands of people wander around and tour this famous
site each year, pointing and considering the angles, number of shots,
assassin’s locations, witness locations, sewers, fences, trees, curbs and other
components of this Dallas, Texas site.
Early
History of Texas
The Europeans and American
Settlers
John Neely Bryan – And Other Early
Founders
Some Wheeling-Dealing to Grow a
City
George Bannerman Dealey
The Dallas Morning News is Born
The Great 1908 Flood
G. B. Promotes Other Early Dallas
Growth
The "City of Hate"
Building the ‘Subway’, Triple
Underpass, Dealey Plaza
The Other Buildings Around Dealey
Plaza
The Elder G. B. Dealey
The Dallas "Citizens
Council"
The ‘Right Wing’ Direction of
Dallas - "City of Hate" Revisited
A ‘Turn-Around’ for the Dallas
Morning News
The Pre-November ‘Hate’ Incidents
Dallas’ Law Enforcement
November 1963, Why Dallas?
Dealey Plaza Changes To-Date
About the Author: Jerry Thomas Dealey was born in Dallas, in 1955, as a
member of the third generation of the Dealey family to be born and live in that
city. He lived in Dallas until July of 1963, when he moved to Denver, Colorado,
with his mother, brother and stepfamily. However, his father continued to live
in Dallas, and Jerry returned every summer during his school years, to spend
part of the summers there. He therefore considers himself a Dallas citizen, who
just lived away from Dallas part-time.
Like many people, he remembers first hearing
about the JFK assassination. In his case, he was informed of it as he returned
from lunch and recess in his 3rd grade class, at 12:30 PM Mountain Time, which
correlates to 1:30 PM Central Time. His school sent all students home at that
time. Like many of us, he then spent the following 3-4 days practically glued
to the television set.
Unfortunately for Jerry, he had a number of
things working against him:1) he had the last name of Dealey, the same as the
Plaza where Kennedy had been shot; 2) he was from Dallas, Texas; and 3) he had
an admittedly obnoxious Texan drawl that tended to immediately advertise these
facts to kids who did not even know him. Many people from Dallas were hated by
the rest of the country during the weeks and months following November 22,
1963, and it would be very incorrect to assume that 3rd, 4th and 5th graders
would be more forgiving and understanding than these so called ‘adults’! Jerry
spent the next few weeks fighting and getting beat up, on a regular basis. To
say the least, Jerry has always had a ‘vested’ interest in the Kennedy
Assassination.
Jerry moved his own family back to the Dallas area in the summer of 1983. Because of his family history, Jerry has become a student of both the history of Dallas, and the Assassination. He is a member of the “Dallas Historical Society”, as well as an ‘overseas’ member of the British group “Dealey Plaza, UK”. His researches have centered on where the two subjects intersect, Dealey Plaza, but extend into both. He attends many of the Dallas area conferences on the assassination and Dallas history. He has, on numerous occasions, been available to give informal tours to visiting people interested in the JFK Assassination, including many of the British members of “Dealey Plaza, UK”. He is also an avid Disney Memorabilia collector, and is known by the nickname of “Mickey” by many of his friends and family.
Sources:
35,000 Days in Texas, Sam Acheson, published by The Macmillan Company,
Copyright 1938
Dallas: A History of “Big D”, Michael V. Hazel, published by Texas State
Historical Association in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas
History at the University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Dallas, An Illustrated History, Darwin Payne, published by Windsor
Publications, Inc., Copyright 1982
Dallas, Public and Private,Warren Leslie, published by Grossman
Publishers, Inc., Copyright 1964 by author.
Dallas: The Making of a Modern City, Patricia Evridge Hill, published by
University of Texas Press, Austin, Copyright 1996 by publisher
Dallas U. S. A., A. C. Greene, published by Texas Monthly Press, Inc.,
1984
Dealey Plaza Historic District, Conover Hunt-Jones, 1993, United States
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of
Historic Places
Death of a President, The, William Manchester, published by Harper &
Row, Copyright 1967 by the author.
Diaper Days of Dallas, Ted Dealey, published by Abingdon Press,
Copyright 1966
G. B. Dealey of the Dallas News, Ernest Sharpe, published by Henry Holt
and Company, Inc., Copyright 1955
Texas in the Morning, Madeleine Duncan Brown, published by The
Conservatory Press, Copyright 1997 by the author
The Texas Connection: the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Craig I.
Zirbel, published by The Texas Connextion Company, copyright 1991 by the author
Various G. B. Dealey correspondence, Dallas Historical Society, Dealey
Library, Hall of State, Fair Park, Dallas, various pieces
WPA Dallas Guide and History, The, written and compiled from 1936 to
1942 by the workers of the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects
Administration in the City of Dallas, published by Dallas Public Library Texas
Center for the Book, University of North Texas Press, 1992
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