The day it happened I had taken my husband to the base,he was on a cross country,got home and was watching "As The World Turns"when it was announced the President's motorcade had been fired on. There were intermittant announcements that they were taking him to Parkland,that he had been hit and that there were three men running from the grassy knoll.Lots of confusion but the three men seen running away from the grassy knoll was repeated pretty often.
I heard it so often that I was tottally shocked when I learned the next day that the shots had been fired from the Book Repository.Do you know whether the grassy knoll was on the left or right of the motorcade,your comment rings true but I never thought about the where the grassy knoll was relative to the motorcade.
The Warren Report seemed such a fabrication and I have never had much trust in government since then.
I also heard way back then that Kennedy had ordered the government to print greenbacks and that there were many money men who were dead set against that. Johnson cancelled that almost immediately. Many years later I read that Lincoln had also asked the government to print and issue greenbacks and was assassinated shortly thereafter.
Well,I do get carried away but would appreciate you or anyone who might read this telling me WHERE WAS THE GRASSY KNOLL RELATIVE TO THE MOTORCADE?
The grassy knoll was to the right of the motorcade, and immediately after the shots people were seen running toward it because they believed that's where they came from.
And I agree, the Warren Report was a joke and has since been discredited. The government itself has now concluded it was likely there was more than one gunman. But I think they knew that from the very beginning and covered it up.
I don't know how to do pictures but here's a link that shows an arial view of Dealey Plaza. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dealey.htm Haven't read the sites, but just posting links for you. The motorcade drove up (from bottom right) and turned left in front of the book depository (large red building in center) Oswald had his best shot aiming up the street as they were coming directly toward him before they made the corner.
Here's other pictures http://sixth-floor-museum.visit-dallas.com/ . Ok, the top picture is the book depository. Oswald supposedly fired from the 6th floor window - it's the corner window and you'll notice the museum keeps the window half opened. The bottom picture shows grass of Dealey Plaza (the top picture, though very distorted, shows the fountain at Dealey) to the right and the grassy knoll on the left of the street. Anyway, the motorcade turned left at the corner and passed the front of the book depository (top picture - from your right going left). JFK had passed (bottom picture street) the book depository building before the Zapruter shows the shots. Zapruter was on the grassy area past the building (see those people walking on the sidewalk, well along in that area but further away from the street on the grass). The white building looking thing is one of the open air walkway/seating structures of the plaza. I'm thinking it may have been Zapruter who said he was leaning/sitting on the low white cement wall. In the bottom picture, see how the street curves downward making the grass on the far side looks like it's on a slight rise. That's the "Grassy Knoll".
There's several who claim another shooter was in a manhole. One of the many "Who Killed JFK" guys plotted the manhole theory by computer and now he's a believer. The bottom picture just cuts off the manhole. Look at the bottom picture again. See the sidewalk (left edge of picture) being intersected with another sidewalk - the manhole is just past there. Here's a link to the manhole - http://www.kenrahn.com/Photo_shows/Dallas_Nov_01/Manhole.html