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If you ask most people to name three things that they associate with Dallas, their answer would most likely include Cowboys and Indians, the assassination of JFK, and the popular television show named after this wealthy city.
Americans and people around the world have grown up with images of Dallas -- some big, some not necessarily better. A sniper gunned down President John F. Kennedy as his motorcade snaked through downtown Dallas in 1963; while the nation mourned, a local nightclub owner murdered the presumed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, right under the noses of local police. The Dallas Cowboys, a football club whose supporters had the audacity to call it "America's Team," won five Super Bowls and made scantily clad cheerleaders with big hair and big boobs a required accessory in professional sports. Bonnie and Clyde began their wanton spree of lawlessness in Dallas. J. R. Ewing presided over an oil empire in the TV soap opera
Dallas, and propagated an image of tough-talking businessmen who wore cowboy boots with their pinstriped suits and had oil rigs pumping in the backyard.
Dallas has come to symbolize the kind of place where such larger-than-life characters live out the American dream, even if their versions are slightly skewed. Big D is about dreaming big, so the city, not much more than 400 square miles of flat prairie land broken up by shiny skyscrapers and soaring suburban homes, adopts all things big. Big cars. Big hair. Big belt buckles. Big attitude.
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