Day 82 Dallas, USA

Monday 29th August 2005

30.8.05 32 °C

Didnt sleep to well as the hotel is chaos and people from the New Orleans area have driven up here to escape from the tornado and all they seem to be doing is walking their pets about all night and making loads of noise in the process.
We drove downtown at 11am and went to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (the place where Lee Harvey Oswald alledgedly shot John F Kennedy from).We must of spent nearly 3 hours walking around the museum and i really didnt think it would be that much to see but the information and things to see seemed to go on forever.The cover the life,death and legacy of the President,a complete insight into the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby and also through the whole conspiracy theory concerning everything and whether others were involved in the shooting.The whole thing was very very interesting and especially where sound experts were brought in some years later to go through the whole video and sound footage of what happened that day and reinacted the whole shooting scenario to determine where the shots came from and how many were fired.They came to the conclusion that there is over a 90% chance that a 4th shot came from the grassy knoll where several witnesses also said they saw smoke and heard a shot from.The word CONSPIRACY certainly springs to mind when you go through everything.I mean Lee Harvey Oswald wasnt even meant to be a good shot with a rifle yet he apparently let of 3 rounds in 5 seconds with an old rifle at a moving vehicle from quite a distance.I guess its like alot of things concerning high profile people and dodgy going ons,you dont usually ever find out the real truth.
It was however very much worth the admission fee and a must go and see for anyone visiting Dallas.We had also thought about going to the Conspiracy Museum but after this museum went into such much detail about the JFK shooting we decided it probably wasnt worth it and i had read mixed reactions about it,so we walked around for a few hours but there wasnt anything else really to see in the short time we were here.

The 6th Floor Museum.The window 2nd from top and far right was where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK from.