The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Today was a very intersting day. The boys had a fieldtrip to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald was when he shot JFK. Tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of JFK's death. We took the crew's new bus to the museum and were all jealous of how awesome it was! We had to remind ourselves that the crew has to sleep on the bus some nights during the tour and doesn't have the luxury of a hotel room. However, with the flat screen tvs, refrigerator, microwave, bunks with their own tvs, and nice decor, we still wished it was our bus, lol!
The museum had so much information that it took us about 3 hours to go through it. Each of us was given a headset and player which explained all of the exhibits in the museum. We followed along from JFK's inauguration to his death and felt like we were reliving it all. It was all so interesting and after going through all of the facts and the questions that still were unanswered, we all had different feelings of what actually happened that day. There were so many different conspiracies and some really seemed plausible. The one thing we all agreed on was that it was extremely sad and senseless. I read how As the World Turns was interrupted with the first news broadcast of the shooting. I remember my mom telling me how she was 8 months pregnant with me(yes, I know you can now do the math and realize that I'm almost 45, lol!) watching her soap opera when she heard the terrible news. It seemed so strange to be in the same exact building and floor that the shooter was in. We could look out the window and see exactly where the motorcade rode along. Down on the road were two x's. The first showed the location where the first shot hit JFK and the second x showed the spot where JFK was hit with the bullet that killed him.
AFter the museum we all grabbed some lunch and then went outside to Grassy Knoll. We walked right by the spots where JFK was shot, saw the grassy knoll where many witnesses claimed that a second gunman fired at JFK. Supposedly, that was the first spot that policemen ran to to try to catch the gunman. After the investigation, it was stated that there actually wasn't a gunman there afterall. This wasn't accepted by many people. People who were at the site said that there was a puff of smoke and a sound of a gunshot coming from that area as the President's car approached.
I wish we could've gotten all of the answers, but I guess that is something that we may never learn. If you'd like to see more info on the museum you can check out the website at http://www.jfk.org/go/home.
After the fieldtrip Colin and I took a little break at the hotel and then headed to the North Park Mall. We were told that when designers were asked if they could choose one mall to display their items in the majority answered the North Park mall. We ate dinner there and did a little bit of Christmas shopping. It was a great night except for the cost of the taxi to take us there and back :(
Tomorrow we're heading to Six Flags so I better go get some sleep!
Hope all went well with our middle school's production of Annie. Colin and I wish we could've been there to see it!
Missy