JFK Assassination Site - Dealey Plaza - Dallas Texas in HD

I always wanted to visit the site of John F Kennedy's assassination. Finally after all these years I did it on the afternoon of April 10th 2009. Seemed smaller then how I always imagined it. With all the unsettled theories surrounding what took place I have never really come 100% to terms with what may have happened here. It was foolhardy for President Kennedy to insist on an open motorcade in the first place but what were the Secret Service and Dallas police thinking? If any building along that route should have been checked out more thoroughly it should have been the Texas School Book Depository building. First the slow moving totally open JFK motorcade approaches it from the south along Houston Street heading north right towards it, then takes a slow left hand turn onto Elm street right below the window they claimed Oswald supposedly fired from. It was a perfect snipers perch all the way. Coming and going. I always found that to be damn peculiar and disturbing. Even more so after seeing the place in person. Maybe we'll never know the whole story. At least those of us living today. Why do I keep thinking somehow some rogue U.S.government entity was involved?

The JFK motorcade route through Dallas that day:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Dealey-plaza-annotated.png

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• Dealey
• Plaza
• JFK
• Assassination
• Dallas
• Texas
• HD

[giles422]

Z was standing on top of the pedestal

[sandiaman1]

Your right. I saw this fact just a week or so ago on a Discovery Channel program. I was off because of reading some false information elsewhere. Will update this annotation as soon as I can. Thanks for the notice.

[dannyxlnXxLove]

is it really windy O.o yours hands shake alot

[sandiaman1]

Sorry......guess I'll wait for you to upload a better one. :-)

[rromy9]

If only they had this kind of video technology 46 years ago.

[sandiaman1]

I always imagined as a kid what it would of been like if I could go back in a time machine to that School Book Depository for just a half hour or so at about noon November 22, 1963. Could I have prevented the assassination? Further still....out of curiosities sake. Would Lee Harvey Oswald even be there at that window?

[ChristianHolloway7]

I want to go there so bad. But I hate flying and it would take like 11 hours to get there from where I live. :(

[lzambeni]

Thanks for the extensive tour! I've always wanted to go there and see all the potential locations of the assassins in person including the wall, fence, the storm drain near the steps and the sewer entrance at the top of the hill where the fence joins the triple underpass. What is amazing is to see how "intimate" - ie: small - the area is. It was definitely picked out as a "shooting gallery". Very sad. RIP JFK.

[fallspeed]

There always seem to be wooden planks missing from the picket fence. I guess people take them as souvenirs.

[TheBillpucci]

Thanks for the footage I remember when I went I couldn't get over how small the surroundings were. My friend said he could of hit the president with a rock. Godspeed JFK

[nealtracy]

Great post mate...Enjoyed that!...

[shanemcdonnll]

if oswald really killed kennedy he would of shot when he was coming towards him not when he is right beside the underpass moving away from him its obvious there was more than 1 assassin

[GL10101]

I think everyone is struck at how smaller the place seems when you first visit it. During the filming, there is a note that says the poster was surprised at how close the Depository window that Oswald shot from was to the place where Kennedy was killed.

That is one reason I think everyone should try to visit this spot. When you do, you can clearly see how easy it would have been for Oswald to do what he did.

It is a shame that building wasn't locked down like it should have been.

[medinapete]

From the book Ultimate Sacrifice I just learned that November 22, 1963 was not JFK's first visit to Dealey Plaza! He rode through the plaza in a motorcade during the 1960 campaign. How cool would it be to see movies of that?

[spawnofwheezedog]

Half an hour ago I was actually standing on the pedestal where Zapruder was! Took a video, too.

[giles422]

no sweat, Great vid btw, always wanted to see the site myself, now feel that I have. Thanks for that!