Whether you trust that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or conceive that John F. Kennedy ’s assassination in 1963 was the result of a huge government conspiracy , there ’s no doubtfulness that Dallas is the place where it all lead down . Since that ’s where I was last hebdomad , of course I had to check out the Grassy Knoll .
As a side Federal Reserve note , when we were consulting the GPS system in our rental railway car , we were n’t completely certain how to look up the site of JFK ’s blackwash . We did n’t know it had withdraw place at Dealey Plaza and did n’t know what the name of the museum was ( or , in fact , that there even was a museum ) . We jokingly wonder if it would be listed under " Grassy Knoll" in the GPS Yellow Pages . pretend what ? It was .
Anyway , when we got to Dealey Plaza , we discovered the Sixth Floor Museum , a museum dedicated to JFK ’s aliveness , death and bequest . The museum is , as its name implies , on the sixth floor of what used to be known at the Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald open fire the shots that kill Kennedy ( or did n’t fire the shots , depending on your hypothesis ) . Maybe it ’s just me , but I found it rather morbid that the museum was house in the very place JFK ’s ( potential ) killer holed up to pip him .
At the museum , I learned some interesting fact about the issue surrounding that fateful day .
" ¢ There were concern about the President ’s safety in Dallas because United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson has been hit with a protest sign of the zodiac and spat on in the city less than a calendar month earlier .
" ¢ Minutes before JFK was shot , a local T.V. station announce that it was cleared that any worries about anti - Kennedy militant in Dallas were completely unfounded .
" ¢ A Presidential car with a unshakable top did n’t exist then , although programme for one were in the works .
" ¢ Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President an hr and 38 mo after President Kennedy was pronounced drained . First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy stood next to him wearing the same dress she was wear when her husband was shot approximately two hour earlier .
" ¢ JFK ’s funeral took place on November 25th , 1963 " “ his boy ’s third birthday .
" ¢ Lee Harvey Oswald was pronounce dead two daylight and seven minutes after President Kennedy was pronounce dead .
" ¢ The mall is key out for George Bannerman Dealey who put out theDallas Morning Newsfor a number of years . He also was a key player in helping to revitalize the Dealey Plaza country .
" ¢ Buildings in Dealey Plaza have not been changed since 1963 , which is really obtrusive when bet at the extremely modern Dallas skyline behind it .
And , queerly , available in the endowment shop were action soma of not just of JFK , but also Abraham Lincoln , Uncle Sam , and" ¦ . Laura Bush ? ? ( Is it just me , or is that a strange combo ? )
Well , I ’m hesitating to ask , but what do you guess ? Single shooter ? Government conspiracy ? JFK is actually still alive and hanging out in a ginmill somewhere with Elvis and Tupac ? ?
