David in downtown Dallas.
Saturday May 21st
Saturday May 21st
Set off on the road for Houston but stopped by Dallas on the way. Dallas was very impressive with its massive glass buildings and we spent some time in the 6th floor museum which contains a detailed record of the day that JFK was shot. There is a mock up of the snipers nest and museum operates from the floor where the murder was carried out. The evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald is that his fingerprints were on the boxes in the snipers nest – if he worked there, this wouldn’t be surprising. His palm print allegedly was found on the rifle. Palm prints are less reliable than fingerprints. Other evidence is a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle that was the same as the murder weapon. Oswald claimed that the photo was a forgery and that someone had put his head onto the body of someone else. He was feeling guilty because when a cop tried to question him as he was walking near the crime scene, he shot at the cop. A half eaten sandwich was found at the crime scene but unfortunately DNA profiling wasn’t yet invented. Oswald was known to have Soviet sympathies and to have taken a pot-shot at an army general (and missed) but the proof that he shot Kennedy seems inconclusive. He wasn’t even a particularly good shot with a rifle. Anyway, it was a long time ago now.
Stopped at Buffalo for the night. It is a pleasant village on the road to Houston. We have to be in Houston on Monday to swap rental cars again as our $5/day deal (found by Elise, in NY) from Phoenix only extends as far as Texas. We’ll pick up another cheap deal in Mobile, Alabama that will take us to NY.
Hot and sticky today. 30oC and 80% humidity. I guess that’s the Southern climate. Gloomy and overcast too – we’ve got used to endless sunshine!
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