紀念碑設計成上下懸空、四方合圍的形狀,紀念碑內部地面只有一塊黑色大理石,上面用鏤金雕刻着肯尼迪的名字。紀念碑的設計師Philip Johnson非常成功的傳達了他對這位總統的敬意:“a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but near the sky and earth.”
John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza takes four or five minutes to walk from the Sixth Floor Museum to commemorate the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. This is an outdoor square. The whole square gives a solemn and solemn feeling.