JFK Motorcade Preview

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Dallas Love Field Airport

JFK's motorcade started at Love Field and exited the south end onto Mockingbird Lane

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The Trade Mart Building

The trade mart building was 1 of the 3 options of where to have the luncheon for JFK, here there is a statue as a memorial for JFK. More than 200 law enforcement officers were working security that day. Unfortunately President Kennedy, never made it there.

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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

The Texas School Book Depository, or now known as the Dallas County Administration Building that houses more than 6500 employees, was where assassinator Lee Harvey Oswald (who was an employee at the book depository at the time) hid when executing his successful assassination attempt on President John F. Kennedy. The 6th and 7th floor was empty for a very long time after that, until the 6th Floor Museum was created to highlight the impact of Kennedy's assassination on the nation and the world.

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JFK assassination X on Elm St.

X marks the spot. Literally in this case. Travelling down Elm St. in downtown Dallas, you will find an X in the middle of the right lane that shows where JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. With thousands of people standing along the street hoping to get a wave from the President, is now a memorial that leaves a longing sadness for many people that watched on TV and in person on that day. Even looking on a map, you can see the visual X.

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Parkland Hospital

After President Kennedy was shot, he was rushed to Parkland Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. His wife Jackie was by his side the whole time. He was taken to trauma 1, where they still have it today.