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| Overlooking Dealy Plaza from the railroad bridge above Elm Street in Dallas. President John Kennedy was assasinated while his motorcade drove along this road November 22, 1963. The Texas Schoolbook Depository where assasin Lee Harvey Oswald shot from is the building on the left. |
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Flag |
Seal |
| Website : www.texas.gov |
 Capital
: Austin |
 Highest
point : Guadalupe
Peak, 8,749 feet |
 Area : 268,601 square miles,
2nd largest state. |
 Population : 20,851,820
(2000 Census) |
 Motto
: Friendship
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 Admitted to
Union : December 29, 1845 |
 State
Song : "Texas, Our Texas" |
 State Bird : Mockingbird |
 State Flower : Blue Bonnet |
 State Tree : Pecan |
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