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| At the corner of 10th & Patton Streets in Dallas. It was near this intersection where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippet after having shot President Kennedy in Dealy Plaza. From here Oswald made his way to the Texas Theater. |
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| 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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