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The only thing these events have in common is the city.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)For people not from the area, these locations will forever be linked to that murder.
kiva
(4,373 posts)those names resonate.
840high
(17,196 posts)at Ft. Dix that day.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Because it's Dallas.
If there's another terrorist attack, or one thwarted in NYC, they'll probably reference 9/11.
If there's riots in LA, they'll probably reference the Rodney King riots of '92.
This brings back images of JFK because it's snipers in Dallas. Search sniper, Dallas, and you'll get nothing but JFK stories.
Well until tonight.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)the fact that they don't know how many shooters are involved or who is behind it.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)nm
LarryNM
(493 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)happened within a few blocks of each other. If you weren't alive during the Kennedy assassination you don't understand the significance of the events which occurred in Dallas over that weekend.
Laffy Kat
(16,391 posts)A coincidence by city only. I just think they are playing these events off each other way too much. There's no other context for it, really. OK, obviously it's just me. Never mind.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)where Kennedy was supposed to speak.
Later that nite he decided to drive down to review the scene of the crime. Imagine my twin brother and I at 5 years old trying to process the death of a beloved President, a sniper and then driving at nite to something called the "triple underpass". My twin and I hid on the floor board of the back seat. we were traumatized-one of my earliest memories
Laffy Kat
(16,391 posts)I was traumatized by it and I was just watching coverage on the television. I can also remember seeing the live feed of Ruby shooting Oswald and my mom telling me I was watching history. You were much closer.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)of our beloved President Kennedy.
I am not surprised it is being brought up.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)its the red brick old building with a clock tower that can be seen as Kennedy takes a left hand turn into Triple Under-pass. Shooting actually occurred as Parade headed about 3 blocks east. The Shooting occurred generally in an open area near the tall skyscraper
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)national trauma. It killed something in all of us and I don't think the country has ever been the same.
senseandsensibility
(17,201 posts)I have nothing to add.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)are mentioning JFK, some of them might have grown up in the era when the assassination was still a completely taboo subject in polite Dallas society
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Deley Plaza looks almost exactly like it did on 63. There is an x painted in the street right where Kennedy's head exploded in the Zapruder film. I actually once found myself driving a convertable right through there. Kind of a weird feeling.