JFK Assassination Site

It has been over fifty-four years since Friday, November 22nd 1963, the day in which the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy would become the fourth president to be assassinated. Driving through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas in a presidential motorcade with his wife Jacqueline and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, John F. Kennedy was fatally shot by twenty-four year old Lee Harvey Oswald.

Today, this historic location is easily identifiable even if it's just by chance. One can envision without difficulty, the 1961 Lincoln Continental limousine with it's top down while President Kennedy, the Texas Governor, his wife and beautiful Jacqueline Kennedy wearing a pink dress smiled and waved just before the death dealing blow as seen in the twenty-six second film that was recorded by amateur cameraman Abraham Zapruder.

Having returned to what many refer to as the "grassy knoll", a small opportunity presented itself that allowed me to document the locality of this tragic event. Many years ago, I was stopped dead in my tracks when my buddy and I realized where we had just stumbled upon. Without a camera in my possession at that time and before the era of cellphones, I was unable to take any photos. A couple years later my wife and I had the experience of standing on the island in the South Pacific that John F. Kennedy swam to after PT-109 was sunk by a Japanese cruiser during the Second World War.

This blog is for the purpose of a handful of photos I wish to share and by no means is intended to be an accurate history lesson. I feel privileged to have had the chance to be able to witness with my own eyes the distinct sites that has changed history in so many different aspects.