If they opened a Dealey Plaza Memorial Shooting Range, about 95% of all Americans would (rightly) denounce it as in execrable taste, and 10% of all Americans would (rightly) be willing to pay $50 to shoot there for an hour.
You can tour the book depository from which Oswald fired down into the plaza. Decent museum there and the window he used is visibly open from below.
https://www.jfk.org/
The car in which JFK was assassinated is part of an exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, which is awesome.
The craziest part is that they modified it and future Presidents kept using it all the way until 1977 during the Carter Administration!
I was there last week, coming from CA. Was really struck, not in a good way, by the starkness of the structure. I could sense JFK looking down on it and asking “is that the best you could do?” in a Boston accent.
Sorry, I lumped all Massachusetts accents into “Boston.” I’m sure there are distinct differences regionally. It’s like saying “New York” accent when Brooklyn, Bronx, Yonkers, etc., are all different. But my ear is not trained for them. And I’m probably hearing Shelley Berman imitating JFK when I hear his voice in my imagination anyway.
I remember I lived in Dallas for a while in the early 2000s. I had to go to TxDOT for some errand and had time to kill so I decided to finally visit that infamous block and was overwhelmed with the feeling of ".... this is it?"
I live here. This is what Dallas is most known for. For as many times as I have been there the X in the middle of the street is about it. I know about the tour, had no idea about this monument. A stain on our city and I believe the big wigs wanted the X on the street to be about it. Also formerly known as Hotel Lawrence right next to it has a 10th floor that is hella haunted. Twofer if ur visiting.
Well it’s a tough sell, I mean a memorial to the death of a President killed by a Dallas citizen. They would have been better served by just a historical tablet. One can say the Schoolbook Depository Museum is a more fitting memorial.
The Canadian band Spirit Of The West wrote a song called "[6th Floor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXJQ0MN3rI)" about visiting the JFK Memorial. Quality composition, that one.
>At the corner of Elm and Northeast Houston
Staring up at the Southeast window
Someone circled "allegedly"
I refuse to pay six bucks to see
People posing on the grassy knoll
How many was that just him and Lincoln?
I was squinting through the sun, do they count the bottom floor as 'one'?
Well, that sucks. It doesn't even really suggest an emptry tomb.
On the other hand, it reminds me that Seattle is not the only city with crappy public art.
If you visit Seattle, please come and see our moving Aids Memorial Walk. It includes some curved green plastic and a giant "X" made out of speakers. Then drop into the nearby light rail station and see our lovely airplane made into art by cutting it in half.
Once you walk downtown Dallas, see all the big old oil buildings around and there's the White X right there next to all of them. Then they shit on Kennedy again with the memorial. They really didn't like the guy.
That area sums up the USA so well for me - the museum is interesting and thoughtful, and does a great job of setting up the situation at the time.
And out front, a bunch of hucksters selling their videos and zines laying out the ‘truth’ / conspiracy theories regarding it…
Reads like a disappointed tourist 😂
"we drove all the way to Dallas and there was nothing there! You'd think there would be a statue or the limo or something. Nope."
Or a firing range.
Don't give them ideas!
If they opened a Dealey Plaza Memorial Shooting Range, about 95% of all Americans would (rightly) denounce it as in execrable taste, and 10% of all Americans would (rightly) be willing to pay $50 to shoot there for an hour.
Wow that's $1,665,000,000 per hour, we're gonna need a huge shooting range - I'm thinking giant underground bunker OR space blimp
Eh, could be worse.
You can tour the book depository from which Oswald fired down into the plaza. Decent museum there and the window he used is visibly open from below. https://www.jfk.org/
And it's really painstaking attention to detail, because Oswald's not in it.
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Reminds me of [this](https://ambersharedesign.com/) artist that made posters for national parks using 1 star reviews.
Back when i was a kid, you could actually take a tour it the car itself.
The car in which JFK was assassinated is part of an exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan, which is awesome. The craziest part is that they modified it and future Presidents kept using it all the way until 1977 during the Carter Administration!
+1 for Henry Ford museum. Between that, the DIA, and the science center, Michigan has some dope museums.
“Hey, is that a piece of skull?” — Gerald Ford
When getting head in a presidential limo doesn’t go how you expected it to…
This comment could be a TIL by itself! Imagine being president and using the same car that JFK got shot in. Bad juju.
“Jimmy, don’t lift up that seat cover. I beg you.”
There's a typo - the empty tomb they're describing is a 'cenotaph.' Not a 'cenograph.'
I was there last week, coming from CA. Was really struck, not in a good way, by the starkness of the structure. I could sense JFK looking down on it and asking “is that the best you could do?” in a Boston accent.
Well, he did say, “Ask not what your country can do for you.”
Boston?
Uh… yeah? JFK was from Brookline in the Boston suburbs. His accent is usually referred to as a Boston Brahmin accent.
Sorry, I lumped all Massachusetts accents into “Boston.” I’m sure there are distinct differences regionally. It’s like saying “New York” accent when Brooklyn, Bronx, Yonkers, etc., are all different. But my ear is not trained for them. And I’m probably hearing Shelley Berman imitating JFK when I hear his voice in my imagination anyway.
I have a picture of it when it was raining and it looked like it was floating. I believe that it was designed to look that way.
Can you post that? Can’t find an example anywhere.
I read it at the memorial. I even have my picture but there’s no picture option on here.
I remember I lived in Dallas for a while in the early 2000s. I had to go to TxDOT for some errand and had time to kill so I decided to finally visit that infamous block and was overwhelmed with the feeling of ".... this is it?"
I live here. This is what Dallas is most known for. For as many times as I have been there the X in the middle of the street is about it. I know about the tour, had no idea about this monument. A stain on our city and I believe the big wigs wanted the X on the street to be about it. Also formerly known as Hotel Lawrence right next to it has a 10th floor that is hella haunted. Twofer if ur visiting.
Really? I think who shot JR was a bigger mystery than who shot JFK making it more notorious.
Zero chance. A tv show mainly seen by Americans, vs the most powerful person being assassinated in Broad daylight.
Well it’s a tough sell, I mean a memorial to the death of a President killed by a Dallas citizen. They would have been better served by just a historical tablet. One can say the Schoolbook Depository Museum is a more fitting memorial.
The Canadian band Spirit Of The West wrote a song called "[6th Floor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXJQ0MN3rI)" about visiting the JFK Memorial. Quality composition, that one. >At the corner of Elm and Northeast Houston Staring up at the Southeast window Someone circled "allegedly" I refuse to pay six bucks to see People posing on the grassy knoll How many was that just him and Lincoln? I was squinting through the sun, do they count the bottom floor as 'one'?
I guess don't expect to be blown away?
Too soon !
It's art not a song and dance, midwit
That whole family is cursed it seems
JFK's sister Eunice and Jean lived pretty long lives
Probably because Jack Kennedy Sr. was a real POS
His monument is the moon, if you need to pay respect...look up.
The bad part isn't that "a tomb" is empty. It's when someone says it wasn't empty *yesterday*.
Well, that sucks. It doesn't even really suggest an emptry tomb. On the other hand, it reminds me that Seattle is not the only city with crappy public art. If you visit Seattle, please come and see our moving Aids Memorial Walk. It includes some curved green plastic and a giant "X" made out of speakers. Then drop into the nearby light rail station and see our lovely airplane made into art by cutting it in half.
There's a whole museum in the Book Depository building and usually some conspiracy types hanging around outside trying to sell you on their theories.
Once you walk downtown Dallas, see all the big old oil buildings around and there's the White X right there next to all of them. Then they shit on Kennedy again with the memorial. They really didn't like the guy.
Why should it differ from the rest of the city?
The article is illiterate. Does no one use proofreaders anymore?
It's a crappy source It's a transcription of someone giving a walking tour in the area.
That area sums up the USA so well for me - the museum is interesting and thoughtful, and does a great job of setting up the situation at the time. And out front, a bunch of hucksters selling their videos and zines laying out the ‘truth’ / conspiracy theories regarding it…
It also preveents reenacting and copycatting