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To: jjbrouwer
It will be different tomorrow but I read somewhere that more people flock to Dallas each year to see Southfork (Miss Ellie/JR etc) than Dealey Plaza. Crazy old world.

I don't know about that...when I took my husband to Dallas, Southfork was empty but Dealey Plaza was full of tourists; it is really what people go to see. It's to be avoided on the 22nd of November, though; it's full of weird conspiracy theorists who actually comb the knoll, looking for shell casings or some such nonsense. There's a JFK "Limo Tour" in Dallas, too; it's a restored Lincoln convertible limo similar to the one JFK used that day; they follow the parade route as accurately as possible (it can't be followed exactly because the direction of Houston street is one-way in the wrong direction) and when they get to a certain spot on Elm street, the car comes to a complete stop, plays tape of gunfire and screaming, then speeds off. It's so TACKY.

11 posted on 11/21/2003 5:18:21 PM PST by Pedantic_Lady
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To: Pedantic_Lady
There's a good documentary on Bravo right now, which documents an audio diary RFK kept after his brother's death. He talks about how disgusted he was at LBJ for parading Jackie around so soon after the shooting and how much he had been against Johnson's original appointment as Vice President.
14 posted on 11/21/2003 5:21:03 PM PST by jjbrouwer (We'll stuff the Aussies in the Rugby World Cup final)
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