Anybody who knows my brother, Pete and me, will know that we have a fascination with President John F. Kennedy and the tragic events that happened in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. I had just turned six-years-old just a couple of months before it happened. When my mother was ill in a town nearby, a couple of years ago, I traveled to Dallas to see her. While there, my brother, George, who lives on the outskirts of Dallas, took us to Dealy Plaza, the site of the assassination. It was creepy to stand in a place where such a tragic event took place. I marvel at the confined space that was Dealy Plaza. Pete took everything in and said I never realized how close the street was to the School Book Depository building. Hell, I could probably hit something from that distance, referring to the slope of Elm Street just before the road reached the Triple Underpass in relation to its distance from the sixth floor window of the School Depository. Pete said it first, but I felt it before he mentioned it, standing on the corner of Houston and Elm Streets, we had a feeling that the presidential motorcade would turn the corner any moment. I nervously looked up to the window on the southeast corner of the building, up on the sixth floor. Its a museum now. There was a man, clearly not Lee Harvey Oswald, who was standing in the window, looking down on the plaza. After walking around the area, I went behind the stockade fence at the top of the now famous grassy knoll. I looked out into the street in front of me and thought how easy it couldve been for someone to lie in ambush and take a shot from this location. The only thing that bothered me with this theory was that the areawasnt very well hidden, and a potential assassin could be seen from just about any vantage point (from the roadway along Elm Street to the railroad switchyard, just a couple hundred feet away). It wouldnt have been my first choice to use this location as an ambush point. We left Dealy Plaza, having spent a couple hours there. I have my opinion about what happened on that day, back in 1963. My idea is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. In April, 1963, he attempted to assassinate retired Army Major General Edwin Walker. Walker survived the attempt when the bullet struck a window frame and was deflected. John Kennedy was 46-year-old when he died. Debate still rages as to what kind of president John F. Kennedy wouldve become had he lived. But the fact is he died at the age of 46, much too young to be cut down the way he had. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy. Im sure more than half the population of the United States of American still feels he. was the victim of a conspiracy. Well just never know.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:44:33 +0000
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