Reply #122: BTW - the motorcade route was not changed from the map

[stopbush]

that was published in the papers. That's just another CT myth, a myth that originated with the mendacious and hapless Jim Garrison. Garrison claimed that the motorcade route that was published was changed at the last minute to take it off Main Street, taking it right in front of the sniper's nest. That's a provable lie, and here's the proof:

Garrison claimed that the map took up "five-sixths of the front page" of the Dallas Morning News of 11/22/63. Oh, really? Here's what that front page actually looked like:



Hmm. Five-sixths of the page? Not so much

Here's the map as it appeared in the Dallas Times Herald on the evening of 11/21/63, ie: the day BEFORE the assassination. Notice that the turn from Main onto Houston onto Elm is CLEARLY shown at the bottom of the diagram.




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The Dallas papers also ran articles on the motorcade route. Here's the route in the DTH:
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And here's the route in the DTH:
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Finally, the fact is that the motorcade route could NOT have gone down Main Street and connected to the Stemmons Freeway. The two roads didn't connect! There was a barrier between Main and the Stemmons. JFK's limo and the entire motorcade would have had to drive over a cement barricade to get to the Stemmons Freeway from Main.

The route was designed from the start to get JFK to the Trade Mart to give his speech, and as you can clearly see from the DTH map of 11/21, that meant turning from Main onto Houston, Houston onto Elm and Elm onto the Stemmons.


Read all about the pathetic Jim Garrison and his delusions about the motorcade route here:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/route.htm