It's history to some but a memory to others, but it took generations for the city of Dallas and the state of Texas to overcome the taint of having been the location where a president of the United States was shot and killed.
Controversy still surrounds the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963, but circumstances surrounding that day that gave Dallas, especially, a black eye for suspected dislike and even hatred of the president.
There were accusations by some in Congress that local Dallas police did a sloppy job in the investigation of the murder, there were reports that leaflets were distributed that called for the arrest of President Kennedy for "treason" because he was considered by some to be soft on America's bitter enemy at the time, Soviet Russia, and on Russia's ally Cuba, just 90 miles south of Florida.
Dallas leaders, including Mayor Earl Cabbell, a convenience store magnate, complained for years that the rest of the nation blamed the city or the people of Dallas for the assassination, even though the alleged killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, hadn't lived in Dallas very long and wasn't a native.
Government records released many years after the assassination revealed Mayor Cabbell's ties to the CIA, but he was joined by many Dallas leaders who tried a number of ways to relieve the city of it's JFK-assassination ties.
An assessment by the University of Texas at Dallas indicates it wasn't until 50 years later at a commemoration of that tragic day that Dallas came to terms with the psychological impact the assassination had on the city and its self-image.
Even now, 62 years later, author Tim Cloward writes of the "somber and disorienting experience" many find when visiting the site of the assassination in Dealy Plaza on the north side of Downtown Dallas November 22nd 1963.