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Dallas Police Memorial, Dallas, Texas The Dallas Police Memorial is a striking tribute to officers of the Dallas Police Department slain in the line of duty since the establishment of the force in the late 19th century. This highly visible landmark, commissioned by the Dallas Police Foundation, and maintained with an endowment from the |
| Dallas Foundation, occupies a prominent site on parkland adjacent to the City Hall in downtown Dallas. The primary feature of the memorial is a level, 93' long by 10' wide by 20"deep, elevated table cantilevered 39 feet at one end and 21 feet at the other. It is supported along a portion of one edge by a single line of progressively skewed stainless steel columns mounted on a canted base structure which appears to rest on the undulating contours of the site. The upper portion of the structure was designed to allow sunlight to stream through the horizontal steel plates on the underside, which bear the badge numbers of the fallen officers, cut into the plate and arranged so that the sun will shine through and project them onto the asphalt paving below. |
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| Portions of this asphalt paving have been cut from prominent streets in Dallas to represent police beats in the city. J.D. Tippit's badge, number 848, is featured at a mid-point in the structure. The date of his death and age are engraved in the brushed-steel plate immediately below the badge number. |
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Texas Peace Officers Memorial, Austin, Texas The Texas Peace Officers Memorial, sponsored by the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation, 400 West 14th Street, Austin, Texas, strives to perpetuate the memory of Texas law enforcement officers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving their communities. |
| The foundation hosts a biennial memorial ceremony at the state capitol during odd numbered years when the Texas Legislature is in session. J.D. Tippit's name appears on panel 26-C-08 of the memorial. |
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National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Washington, D.C. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial was authorized by an act of the United States Congress and was dedicated seven years later by President George H. Bush, on October 15, 1991. |
| It honors all of America's federal, state and local peace officers. Inscribed on the Memorial's blue-gray marble walls are the names of more than 14,300 men and women who have been killed in the line of duty, dating back to the first known death in 1792. |
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| Designed by Washington, D.C., architect Davis Buckley, the Memorial sits on three acres of federal park land called Judiciary Square, located on the 400 block of E Street, NW. The site has served for some 200 years as the seat of our nation's judicial branch of government. |
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A glance around the space finds plush carpets of grass, nearly 60,000 plants and 128 trees decorating the Memorial grounds. Each year, around the first of April, some 14,000 orange and yellow daffodils make the Memorial one of Washington's most spectacular attractions. The total cost of the Memorial was $11 million, all of which was raised through private donations. The Memorial is flanked on the east and west by DC Superior Court buildings and to the north by the Old Pension Building (now the National Building Museum), which was designed by General Montgomery Meigs and dedicated in 1887 to serve the Civil War pensioners. J.D. Tippit's name appears on panel 63E, line 9, and is next to a fallen officer named John Kennedy to help recall Tippit's special place in history. |
