Thursday, September 1, 2016---Downtown Dallas and a Reception Too

The four of us---my sister Patti, my brother-in-law Dudley, my husband Jim and I---had a nice breakfast at the Residence Inn in Arlington before we left for downtown Dallas.

Here is a picture of the Dallas skyline that I took from our moving car. There was not much traffic at 10:00 a.m.

After parking our car in an unbelievably inexpensive lot, we walked toward our destination, the Sixth Floor Museum.

On the way, Trojan Candy took pictures of The Dallas Morning News,

Dealey plaza was completed in 1940 to preserve the birth of Dallas. It is located across from the old Texas School Book Depository Building that is on the corner of Houston Street and Elm Street.

Trojan Candy could not believe that I was standing across from the old Texas School Book Depository Building. From the sixth floor window circled in yellow, Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. I was a teenager living in my home town Houston, Texas, on that day. President and Mrs. Kennedy had just visited Houston that morning and then flew to Dallas. History, as well as much emotion, appeared before my eyes.

The Sixth Floor Museum now occupies the top two stories of the Old Texas School Book Depository Building. Much to my chagrin, no pictures were allowed on the sixth floor. Suffice it to say, we four spent four hours taking a self-guided tour of the sixth and seventh floors. Each of us was given an audio player that described what was shown in each exhibit. What an historical experience!

Luckily, Trojan Candy could take pictures on the seventh floor. I walked to the corner window one flight above the sixth floor corner where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy. This is what he saw, and I imagined.

The Presidential motorcade came toward me on Houston Street at about 20 mph and then turned left (my right) in front of me on Elm Street. The motorcade proceeded west on Elm Street.

As the motorcade continued west, Lee Harvey Oswald shot three rounds from the 6th floor window. The first shot missed, the second shot hit President Kennedy in the neck, and the third shot fatally wounded him in the head. If you look carefully inside the red circle of my picture, you might see a white X on the street marking the location of the limousine for the first shot. In a later picture from the street, you can see the white X better.

The seventh floor had many artifacts from the 1960 Presidential election. Here are two of them.

The last location I photographed was the Grassy Knoll which is to the left in the previous picture. There are conspiracy theories that there was a second shooter firing a fourth shot from behind the fence on this Grassy Knoll. Although the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, it is still doubted by many people.

After leaving the grassy knoll, the four of us crossed Elm Street to Dealey Plaza. There, Trojan Candy saw many familiar faces. We saw fellow TGLA members Sandy Johnson, Cheryl Schwartz and their husbands. A fellow tourist took this picture of us standing across the street from the Sixth Floor Museum. Trojan Candy decided to include myself in this picture. Back row: Sandy Johnston, Gaston Escamilla, Rex Johnston, Elliott Schwartz, Jim Yee. Front row: Dudley and Patti Poon, Cheryl Schwartz, Trojan Candy.

After saying goodbye to our friends, we walked to catch a free ride on the D Link bus. It's a pink bus.

Before catching the D Link bus back to our car, I went into a local CVS to try to buy some bananas. Inside, I saw another TGLA friend, D'Arcy McLeod. She posed with Patti and her daughter Devon.

What a memorable day of sightseeing and visiting with USC friends.