We had to get a new GPS unit when the old one started malfunctioning around Luckenback, Texas. It has since made somewhat of a recovery, but meanwhile we took off into downtown Dallas to check out the old book depository building where JFK was assassinated. We took some crazy three-lane changes off the freeway and I thought for sure we were in the wrong place when a sign suddenly sprung up that said the book depository museum was only 2 blocks away. We even found a good spot to parallel park right on the street, fed a bunch of quarters into the meter for 2 hours, and proceeded down the street.
As we got to a corner, I started feeling huge energy and tingling on my arms and head. I didn't say anything about it, but my companion remarked a few minutes later about the same thing and a weird feeling. Once we got down to the actual building and area where the assassination had taken place, the feeling had left.
There are two Xs on the road where the first and second shots hit the president. I risked life and limb to dodge traffice and stand over each X and take a photo of the book depository from those spots (below).
The building's sixth floor is a self-guided museum (meaning headphones and recorded info on each exhibit). Photos were not permitted inside. There was a huge amount of info which would have required many hours to ingest, and as the crowds were growing after the first hour, we decided to leave.
Standing on this corner getting our first glimpse of the book depository. The window of importance is the 7th from the left, on the sixth floor on the left face of the building in the photo. Funny that the other windows in that row have rounded tops, but that window is square.
Above: Taken while standing directly over X in road marking spot where first shot hit the president
Above: Taken while standing directly over X in road marking spot where second shot hit the president
Above: What the sixth floor looked like on the day of assassination. looking down towards the windows facing the street
Above: The Red Museum, an unbelievably fabulous building that seems rather out of place in the worn-out downtown area of the book depository
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