The Traveling Toe

The Traveling Toe

Monday, January 19, 2015

Last Night in Cowtown

JFK Tribute
JFK Tribute - Fort Worth, Texas

This tribute to JFK, in Fort Worth, Texas,  is registered as a National Historic Landmark.  It honors JFK and Jackie as they spent their last night at the Texas Hotel (now the Hilton Hotel), which is directly across from the memorial.   The next morning JFK attended a Chamber of Commerce breakfast and later met the crowd of citizens waiting for him.  

The tribute was opened on November, 2012. Along with the statue of JFK are large plaques with selected quotes of his.  

Parking can be a problem, but it is certainly inspiring to visit this memorial and to contemplate that he would not survive the day and that our world was forever changed.  There is no fee to visit the memorial as it is in the open air, free to all.  You can just walk  around it and absorb the history of the moment.




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