Reply #59

People came rushing into the kitchen from both directions. Sirhan likely would have been able to get close to RFK regardless of which direction was taken to the press room.

As for the JFK "motorcade route change," it never happened. A word description of the route was published in both the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald (evening paper) on Nov 19. It was exactly the same as the final route. A picture of the route was published on the evening of the 21st in the DTH - also the same as the final route taken. There WAS a small map printed on the front page of the DMN the morning of Nov. 22 which was too small to show much detail which was apparently the source of Jim Garrison's mistaken tale of the "route change." This was then picked up and embellished by other JFK conspiracy peddlers.

Account of the "route change" http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/route.htm

DTH map of Nov 21 - Note Main Street at bottom of map, turn right onto Houston, and turn left unto Elm. The Texas Schoolbook Depository Building was at the corner of Houston and Elm. Kennedy was shot while proceeding up Elm toward the ramp unto Stemmon's Freeway to get to the destination of the Trade Mart. It was in fact impossible to turn from Main unto Stemmon's Freeway without jumping a concrete divider, something a motorcade obviously wasn't going to do. Oswald would certainly have known that.

Description in DMN on Nov. 19


DMN map morning of Nov 22. Note the turn from Main unto Stemmon's Freeway at the Triple Underpass, an impossible turn to make. Clearly the editors reduced detail because of the small size of the map.