April 19th, I'm working the NBA Playoffs in Dallas and I had a day off so I decided to go to Dealey Plaza and see the place where JFK was assassinated. I was walking around and this street person came up to me and started giving me a tour... I never asked him too but he seemed to know a lot so I just went with it. Some of the things he showed me were bogus... like a place in the cement where a stray bullet had made a mark but some of the things he showed me made sense. Here are a couple of the pictures from my eight dollar tour.
This is my tour guide... I made him pose for the picture before I gave him the cash. He was a very nice guy and seemed to know a lot about the park.
This is a shot of the sixth floor window where Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly fired the shots from. Its the window on the right second one down.
The X in the road marks the unofficial spot where President Kennedy was shot the second time.
This is the view of the same X from the grassy knoll where a lot of people believe that a second shooter was located.
This is the spot from the railroad bridge where my tour guide thinks the real second shooter was located.This is kind of a morbid post of pictures that I took at a very unusual place. It is a fantastic spot to go and remember... not only a man... but a time in American History where service, civic responsibility and new frontiers were all a possibility.
I spent a lot of time sitting in Dealey Plaza watching people and thinking about what it was that happened in this spot.
I wish this place was thought of and treated like Pearl Harbor... where people who entered have to show respect for those who died but I know that will never happen. On this spot a President... a man... a husband... a son and a father died and like Pearl Harbor a piece of America died as well. We were forever changed by the events that happened on both of those spots... I feel they both deserve the same respect.
My thoughts and prayers are that this country never again has to endure something like this again.
