Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The Texas Book Depository


September 23rd.

I landed in Dallas after a six hour domestic leap-frog from Virginia.
It was 11:32am Dallas time, and we pulled straight into the Parking Lot beside Dealey Plaza.

I've watched the Oliver Stone movie JFK about 400 times, it's not a fantastic movie, mainly because it has Kevin Costner as the main role, but I usually have it on in the background when I'm doing something else.
The movie has several different scenes of Dealey Plaza, which has not been changed since the 60s.
So stepping out of the car really played with my brain, as I had seen every angle of the plaza from the movie without ever visiting Texas before.

The Texas Book Depository, which is now a museum, sits on the corner of the plaza. The museum is called the 6th floor museum, where you catch an elevator directly up to that floor and are given an audio tour of the building walking you though the political and personal life of JFK, the events of the fateful day in Dallas and the consequences and reactions of JFK's death.
I was a moving story and you see people, even people that were clearly born after 1963, crying and mournfully approaching the exhibit.

If you visit the exhibit and the square, it makes you realize that it was probably that the shots came from the Depository, but whether on purpose or not, it also questions what else happend.


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