We spent over three hours tracing the motorcade route of JFK and explored the site of his assassination at Dealey Plaza and the former Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas, which is now The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This educational exhibition on the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy featured photographs, artifacts, films, and the spot on the sixth floor where Lee Harvey Oswald fired at the motorcade. There is an "X" marked on the street where JFK's car was when that fatal shot occurred and there is Andy standing in the street to see if indeed the window is in view. The window is on the second level from the top, corner one on the right side of the building. The picture taken of us is on the "grassy knoll", where it was reported that a second gunman fired a shot.
The odd picture of the white "monument" is the JFK Memorial designed as an open tomb, so visitors can "reflect and find their own spiritual meanings", according to the renowned architect Philip Johnson.
We were impressed with Dallas. It was clean, friendly, and a great skyline of progressive architectural buildings, along with historic districts that were well preserved.
I bet this was cool.
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