Book Depository Book Depository Book Depository (previously "The Book Depository") is a UK-based online book seller with a large catalogue offered with free shipping to over 160 countries. The store was founded by a former Amazon employee. In 2011 it was acquired by Amazon. The company was founded in 2004 by Andrew Crawford and current Chief Operating Officer Stuart Felton; its motto is to make "All Books Available to All". On 4 July 2011, Amazon reached an agreement to acquire Book Depository. In 2012, it was a finalist for the "Retail/Leisure business of the Year" Fast Growth Business Award and won two
Texas School Book Depository Immediately before the President Kennedy's visit to Dallas, work on the west side of the sixth floor had started, "leaving the whole scene in disarray, with stock shifted as far as the east wall, and stacks in between piled unusually high." On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former U.S. Marine who was working as a temporary employee at the building, fired three shots from a sixth floor window at the presidential motorcade, killing President John F. Kennedy. In addition to its building at Elm and Houston, the Texas School Book Depository Company maintained a second warehouse at