Dal-Tex Building

Dal-Tex Building
View from southwest, with the former Texas School Book Depository Building at left, and the Dal-Tex Building, right next to it.
Former names	Kingman Texas Implements Company Building, John Deere Plow Company Building
Alternative names	Dallas Textile Building
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Brick
Architectural style	Sullivanesque
Address	501 Elm Street Dallas, Texas United States
Coordinates	32°46′43″N 96°48′30″W / 32.77861°N 96.80833°W / 32.77861; -96.80833
Completed	1902; 115 years ago (1902)
Technical details
Floor count	7
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Hubbell and Greene
References

The Dal-Tex Building is a seven story office building located at 501 Elm Street in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The building is located on the northeast corner of Elm and North Houston Streets, across the street from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, the scene of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The Dal-Tex Building, sometimes called the Dallas-Textiles Building, the Dal-Tex Market Building, or the Dal-Tex Mart Building, was a center of the textile business in Dallas.

Designed by architects James P. Hubbell and Herbert Miller Greene as a warehouse for the Kingman Texas Implement Company, the building has been described as one of the "earliest Sullivanesque designs in Texas". The building has also been reported to show the Prairie School's influence on Greene.

Abraham Zapruder, who shot the famous Zapruder film, had his offices on the fourth floor of the Dal-Tex Building.

Several conspiracy theories in the assassination of Kennedy allege that some of the shots fired on the President's motorcade originated from the Dal-Tex Building. In September 1966, Triumph published an article by Lawrence R. Brown stating that bullet trajectories traced back to a second floor window in the Dal-Tex Building.Jim Garrison told Playboy in September 1967 that the building was "in all probability" one of four locations in which snipers fired at Kennedy. Garrison would later claim that there were four assassination teams, each consisting of a rifleman and a lookout, including one on the seventh floor of the building. In November 1967, Josiah Thompson stated that his study led him to conclude that there were four shots from three firing positions during the assassination. Thompson concluded that the Dal-Tex Building was included within a zone that also included the Dallas County Records Building and parts of the Dallas Criminal Courts Building that Thompson determined could have been the location source of the second shot. Thompson said that a young man was arrested within minutes after the shooting, taken in for questioning by police, then disappeared in the confusion.