Tickets for Dallas’ official JFK 50th ceremony to be vetted and with background checks by Dallas Pol

[Ichingcarpenter]

A stringent online process including background checks will be used to award thousands of free tickets for the Nov. 22 program in Dallas honoring President John F. Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.


Mayor Mike Rawlings said the measures are necessary for security.


“It’s the committee’s intent to provide the safest environment for those who are attending this program to commemorate the life of President Kennedy,” Rawlings said. “There’s no question that in a post-9/11 world — and we saw examples of that in the Boston Marathon this year — that vigilance in regard to public safety should take precedence in all matters.”


Between July 31 and about Oct. 1, a computer program will randomly select winners of about 5,000 tickets. Those people will then be vetted by the Dallas police. The drawing is not first-come, first-served.


http://www.dallasnews.com/news/jfk50/explore/20130620-tickets-for-dallas-official-jfk-50th-ceremony-to-be-randomly-awarded.ece


Irony...Jack Ruby was vetted by the Dallas Police.... plus other notable ironies in this story.

[Downwinder]

1. Is this a sick joke?

[graham4anything]

2. they wouldn't want to let any "3bums" there again I would hope.

[KurtNYC]

3. Cashing in on the assassination of JFK is truly in poor taste.

They have a logo, etc. This is the marketing version of Double Speak.

[Octafish]

4. Dallas honchos will be unveiling a nice plaque on JFK's accomplishments...

The city of fathers of Dallas plan to plant a memorial plaque to President John F. Kennedy near the spot where he was shot dead 50 years ago, reports the Dallas Morning News.

This foolhardly but revealing proposal captures Dallas civic culture at is most clueless. Whatever its intentions, the idea of an “uplifting” plaque in the place where John F. Kennedy — a man, a husband, a father, a veteran of war, a visionary liberal, and a leader — died in a hail of bullets is not only in supremely bad taste. It also may also violate National Park Service regulations requiring that the area be preserved as it appeared 50 years ago.

Which is not to say the plaque won’t sprout on or about November 22, 2013. This is Texas, land of the backroom deal, and the fix for the happy JFK plaque seems to be in.

What kind of plaque?

“Plans call for his words to be written in 2-inch-high letters on a plaque 3½ feet wide by 15 feet long that will be placed in the ground on the grassy knoll on the north side of the plaza,” the Morning News reported.

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http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/uplifting-the-spirit-in-dealey-plaza/