1.3K views · 62 reactions | The former Texas School Book Depository building seemed destined for destruction until this day in 1977, when Dallas County voters approved a $28 million capital improvement bond that included funding to purchase the building. Listen to former Dallas County Public Works Director Judson Shook describe the eerie experience of walking through the vacant building for the first time. | The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza | Facebook

By January 1963, the Texas School Book Depository Company had moved into their warehouse at 411 Elm Street in downtown Dallas. Recent high school graduate Karen Westbrook Scranton interviewed for a job with South-Western Publishing Co. on the second floor in June 1963. In this excerpt from her 2016 oral history, she recalls her difficulty locating the building that would become infamously recognized around the world just five months later. Credit: Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum a