- Texas Theatre
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caption = The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
location = 231 W. Jefferson Blvd.Dallas, Texas
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added =April 1 ,2003
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governing_body =The Texas Theatre is a performing arts
theatre , formerly a movie theatre, in theOak Cliff area of Dallas,Texas , (U.S.A.).It was here that
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on22 November 1963 , for his allegedassassination of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy and allegedmurder of Dallas police officerJ. D. Tippit . The movies showing at the Texas Theatre on that fateful day were "Cry of Battle " and "War is Hell ".When first opened in 1931, the Texas Theatre was the largest suburban movie theatre in Dallas and was part of a chain of theatres once owned by
Howard Hughes .Following closure in 1989, the theatre was restored in 2003 as part of a larger
urban renewal plan instigated by the Dallas city authorities. It was listed in theNational Register of Historic Places in the same year. The theatre now plays host to a variety of community events and performing arts shows, in addition to the screening of movies.External links
* [http://www.texas-theatre.org/texasTheatre.asp Official website] .
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