What’s changed in Dallas since the Kennedy assassination

The eternal flame burns at the gravesite of former President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.,Friday marks the 50-year anniversary of his assassination while traveling in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, where memories of the event still linger.

A visitor wearing a cowboy hat looked out onto Dealey Plaza from the Sixth Floor Museum located in the former Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas. Three cities loom large in the life and death of John F. Kennedy: Washington, D.C., where he served as U.S. president and as a senator; Dallas, where he died, and Boston, where he was born.

On the left, cars traveled on the road past The Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. andon the right, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, formerly known as the Texas School Book Depository, photographed from Elm and Commerce Streets in Dallas on Nov. 10. The City of Dallas will hold commemoration ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

An X marks the spot on Elm Street where the first bullet hit Kennedy.

A tourist pointed to a historical plaque telling the modern history of Dealey Plaza.

A plaque marks the original site of Trama Room 1 where doctors rushed to treat the mortally wounded Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. The Trauma Room 1 no longer exists and is now the radiology department at the hospital.

The front of Parkland Memorial Hospital. When a new Parkland hospital opens in the spring of 2015, the lobby will feature a timeline of events from the hospital’s history, including Nov. 22, 1963.

Hospital workers walked down a hallway featuring a display that includes portraits of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and the presidential seal at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

The former Texas School Book Depository, now the Sixth Floor Museum, overlooks Dealey Plaza. The depository was the site where Lee Harvery Oswald fired a gun, killing Kennedy.

The seat that Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in when Dallas Police arrested him is illuminated at the Texas Theatre in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Oswald was arrested here on Nov. 22,

The exterior of The Texas Theatre, as it appears today.

A historical marker , right, marks the intersection where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippet after the assassination.

The Dallas Municipal Building in downtown Dallas, Also known as “Old City Hall,” it was in the parking garage of this building that nightclub owner Jack Ruby killed Oswald as he was being transferred, and in a top floor jail where Oswald was held. The building served as city hall until the late 1970s and included the police department and jail. The Oswald related spots are not accessible to the public, but the building still houses the Municipal Court.

The jail cell that once held Oswald.

Passengers walked to a security checkpoint over a map of the world at Love Field. The map was one of the items preserved during an ongoing renovation of the terminal and was in the same location on Nov. 22, 1963 when Air Force One landed with Kennedy aboard.