Not Andy Naylor
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I was wondering if any other NSCers have visited the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas - the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK (or did he?).
Notwithstanding the grisly subject-matter, it's one of the best museums I've ever been to. Fascinating video and background information, and you can stand at the window through which Oswald fired*. Two things in particular amazed me. Within hours Oswald was facing the press, being asked questions including: 'Did you shoot the President?' - and the traffic was running again! Today the street would be closed for weeks while the forensics people crawled all over it.
Outside you can wander all over the grassy knoll, see where the mysterious second gunman might or might not have been, and risk serious injury in the fast-flowing traffic trying get a glimpse of the markers in the roadway where the bullets hit.
* For those who can't get there. they have a webcam: http://www.earthcam.com/usa/texas/dallas/dealeyplaza/
http://www.jfk.org/
Notwithstanding the grisly subject-matter, it's one of the best museums I've ever been to. Fascinating video and background information, and you can stand at the window through which Oswald fired*. Two things in particular amazed me. Within hours Oswald was facing the press, being asked questions including: 'Did you shoot the President?' - and the traffic was running again! Today the street would be closed for weeks while the forensics people crawled all over it.
Outside you can wander all over the grassy knoll, see where the mysterious second gunman might or might not have been, and risk serious injury in the fast-flowing traffic trying get a glimpse of the markers in the roadway where the bullets hit.
* For those who can't get there. they have a webcam: http://www.earthcam.com/usa/texas/dallas/dealeyplaza/
http://www.jfk.org/