The building was torn down and replaced by a Circle Inn which has now been there long enough that the building has entered into decline and the swimming pool has been filled in with concrete. The neighborhood is not one where curiosity-seekers should wander, and since the apartment is gone there is nothing worth risking life and limb to see.

SAYS JIM MARRS: After Ruby shot Oswald, a group of reporters went to Ruby's apartment and rummaged around. A significant number of those people later died under mysterious circumstances.

SAYS GARY MACK: Several reporters went to Ruby's apartment after he shot Oswald and were let in by the manager. It is true that a couple of the reporters later died under strange circumstances.

Located in the Sixth Floor Museum. Also called the Sniper's Nest, the window is visible from the street—it is the last window on the right on the building's sixth floor side facing what is now Dealey Plaza. Your view of the window is actually better from the street since it is glassed off and inaccessible to the public from the inside. Boxes of books are still stacked around the window as they were on November 22, 1963.

SAYS JIM MARRS: Nobody actually saw anybody fire a rifle out of the School Depository window, and they were never able to place Oswald in that window. He had been encountered less than 90 seconds later in the stairs calmly holding a Coke. He would have had to run down the stairs, slamming heavy fire doors behind him (which nobody heard), get change and then get a Coke out of the machine, and then stand there and hold it—all in less than a minute and a half. The fact that they found his fingerprints on the boxes by the windows means nothing since he was hired to move them. There were other fingerprints on those boxes that were never identified. The plexiglassed area around the sniper's nest window now prevents you from noticing that a shot from that window would be very difficult or impossible to make, especially since that big tree completely impedes the view.

SAYS GERALD POSNER: The sniper's nest is the nexus of the murder day. It was where Oswald could hide away and shoot at the motorcade and where he could get in and shoot one deadly shot out of three. He evaded detection here. It was the ideal sniper's nest. Oswald never left the room that morning. The FBI reconstructed the descent from the sixth floor—and measured the time it took to descend by walking, not running--and there was more than enough time left to reach the first floor.

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