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Friday, June 5, 2009

Texas History

So I don't know if Texas really likes to be known for the state where JFK was assassinated but it was pretty cool to see. Call me a nerd but I loved reading about it, seeing where it happened, and hearing people talk of the conspiracy theory of who did it. Fascinating. Those X's in the street where Ty is pointing at is where he got shot. There was two of them the first missed. The building we are standing in front of is the building where supposebly one of the gun shots came from, although there is talk of bullets heard coming from the grassy knoll just across from us. The building is now a museum dedicated to JFK and his wife. There were fascinating pictures in there I had never seen before of like the bullet wound to his head, the so-called actually gun used, and some cool old photos of when it actually happened and they displayed some of the cameras that those photos were taken from. Ty and I were noticing that it was a really good posting for who ever did it cause it was a good clear shot and very close. What a tragedy. The last picture is just of a cool restaurant that lights up at night.

3 comments:

McCandless Co. said...: Ok so we didn't always know what to do while we were in TX but we frequented the assassination spot like 10 times when we were there. We were totally obsessed and we would read anything about the conspiracy theories that were out there, it really is fascinating. So we were total nerds about it too! How are you liking it there? Where are you living? We lived in Plano and The Colony area....are you anywhere close?; June 6, 2009 at 3:50 AM
The Waltz's said...: The picture of the whole family cracks me up, mostly Ty and Talon...what is it with little boys? We have a bunch of pictures like that too. lol; June 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Amanda said...: I wanted to go there before I left dangit! It looks way cool!; June 30, 2009 at 4:44 PM

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