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rsdsharp

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2. He was already working at the School Book Depository. The motorcade had to pass in front of it

Reply to Bayard (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 20, 2022, 01:38 PM

Nov 2022

because Elm was the only one of the two westbound streets going under the triple overpass that would get them to the freeway that would take them to the Trade Mart for the President’s speech.

There was no “scoping out.” There was only the happenstance of Oswald seeing the route in the paper three days before the appearance, and making a decision to try to seize the fame he had been denied by his failed assassination attempt on Edwin Walker in April.

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JFK's motorcade route was published in advance - @BeschlossDC [View all] BootinUp Nov 2022 OP

Holy Crap!! Bayard Nov 2022 #1

He was already working at the School Book Depository. The motorcade had to pass in front of it rsdsharp Nov 2022 #2

Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Assassinate a Former Army General nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #3

Yeah, I know -- Edwin Walker inApril 1963, which I referred to in my post. rsdsharp Dec 2022 #5

He now had a new plan Historic NY Dec 2022 #4