Texas Monthly Sixth Floor Museum Article

[Mark]

From November a year ago. I think the writer is being a bit too cute;
he's over-thinking his subject. It is what it is:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/kennedy-assassination-sixth-floor-museum/

[John Corbett]

From November a year ago. I think the writer is being a bit too cute;
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/kennedy-assassination-sixth-floor-museum/

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I think this article does a good job of explaining the fascination that
Dealey Plaza still holds for us. When I visited in 2008, I was one of the
countless people who timed the Elm St. traffic to get my picture taken at
the X. It seems like a dorky thing to do but I couldn't resist.
Overthinking is really what this hobby is about. It's not as if the murder
is very complicated. A malcontent with a cheap rifle ambushed a president
riding past his workplace in a slow moving open top car. The cops had
solved the case within 12 hours. They had gathered more than enough
evidence to have easily convicted Oswald for the crime.

I'm glad the TSBD was preserved and the Sixth Floor Museum is a valuable
piece of history. Ford's Theater still stands to this day in pretty much
the state it was in on April 14, 1865. It even has the bunting in front of
the president's box. Visitors stand in line for their turn to fill the
lower level while a presentation gives the particulars of the event. It's
easy to imagine sitting in those seats during the play and have it
suddenly interrupted by an ear splitting gunshot and looking up to see
John Wilkes Booth leap from the box onto the stage. Likewise the Sixth
Floor Museum allows visitors to look out onto Elm St from the window next
to the sniper's nest and get a perspective on what Oswald was looking at
as the motorcade turned the corner from Houston.

[Mark]

Post by John Corbett

From November a year ago. I think the writer is being a bit too cute;
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/kennedy-assassination-sixth-floor-museum/

'
I think this article does a good job of explaining the fascination that
Dealey Plaza still holds for us. When I visited in 2008, I was one of the
countless people who timed the Elm St. traffic to get my picture taken at
the X. It seems like a dorky thing to do but I couldn't resist.
Overthinking is really what this hobby is about. It's not as if the murder
is very complicated. A malcontent with a cheap rifle ambushed a president
riding past his workplace in a slow moving open top car. The cops had
solved the case within 12 hours. They had gathered more than enough
evidence to have easily convicted Oswald for the crime.
I'm glad the TSBD was preserved and the Sixth Floor Museum is a valuable
piece of history. Ford's Theater still stands to this day in pretty much
the state it was in on April 14, 1865. It even has the bunting in front of
the president's box. Visitors stand in line for their turn to fill the
lower level while a presentation gives the particulars of the event. It's
easy to imagine sitting in those seats during the play and have it
suddenly interrupted by an ear splitting gunshot and looking up to see
John Wilkes Booth leap from the box onto the stage. Likewise the Sixth
Floor Museum allows visitors to look out onto Elm St from the window next
to the sniper's nest and get a perspective on what Oswald was looking at
as the motorcade turned the corner from Houston.

Okay. Well said. I visited Ford's Theater on a high school field trip
years ago. With an museum employee, we were allowed to go up the narrow
stairs and look inside the president's viewing box. Something you don't
forget. Mark

[John Corbett]

Post by John Corbett

From November a year ago. I think the writer is being a bit too cute;
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/kennedy-assassination-sixth-floor-museum/

'
I think this article does a good job of explaining the fascination that
Dealey Plaza still holds for us. When I visited in 2008, I was one of the
countless people who timed the Elm St. traffic to get my picture taken at
the X. It seems like a dorky thing to do but I couldn't resist.
Overthinking is really what this hobby is about. It's not as if the murder
is very complicated. A malcontent with a cheap rifle ambushed a president
riding past his workplace in a slow moving open top car. The cops had
solved the case within 12 hours. They had gathered more than enough
evidence to have easily convicted Oswald for the crime.
I'm glad the TSBD was preserved and the Sixth Floor Museum is a valuable
piece of history. Ford's Theater still stands to this day in pretty much
the state it was in on April 14, 1865. It even has the bunting in front of
the president's box. Visitors stand in line for their turn to fill the
lower level while a presentation gives the particulars of the event. It's
easy to imagine sitting in those seats during the play and have it
suddenly interrupted by an ear splitting gunshot and looking up to see
John Wilkes Booth leap from the box onto the stage. Likewise the Sixth
Floor Museum allows visitors to look out onto Elm St from the window next
to the sniper's nest and get a perspective on what Oswald was looking at
as the motorcade turned the corner from Houston.

Okay. Well said. I visited Ford's Theater on a high school field trip
years ago. With an museum employee, we were allowed to go up the narrow
stairs and look inside the president's viewing box. Something you don't
forget. Mark

That is fascinating. You essentially would have been looking at the box
the way booth saw it. I saw a documentary many years ago. If I remember
right their was a vestibule behind the box. Booth had barricaded the outer
door leading into the vestibule and had drilled a peep hole through the
door between the vestibule and the box. I can't remember if that is
something he had done ahead of time. He looked through the peep hole to
see just where Lincoln was sitting. He knew the lines to the play and knew
when the biggest laugh was coming and it was at that point he opened the
door and immediately shot Lincoln with the single shot derringer, then
attacked the army officer with his knife before leaping onto the stage. Is
that the way you remember it being presented?

[Mark]

Post by John Corbett

Post by John Corbett

From November a year ago. I think the writer is being a bit too cute;
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/kennedy-assassination-sixth-floor-museum/

'
I think this article does a good job of explaining the fascination that
Dealey Plaza still holds for us. When I visited in 2008, I was one of the
countless people who timed the Elm St. traffic to get my picture taken at
the X. It seems like a dorky thing to do but I couldn't resist.
Overthinking is really what this hobby is about. It's not as if the murder
is very complicated. A malcontent with a cheap rifle ambushed a president
riding past his workplace in a slow moving open top car. The cops had
solved the case within 12 hours. They had gathered more than enough
evidence to have easily convicted Oswald for the crime.
I'm glad the TSBD was preserved and the Sixth Floor Museum is a valuable
piece of history. Ford's Theater still stands to this day in pretty much
the state it was in on April 14, 1865. It even has the bunting in front of
the president's box. Visitors stand in line for their turn to fill the
lower level while a presentation gives the particulars of the event. It's
easy to imagine sitting in those seats during the play and have it
suddenly interrupted by an ear splitting gunshot and looking up to see
John Wilkes Booth leap from the box onto the stage. Likewise the Sixth
Floor Museum allows visitors to look out onto Elm St from the window next
to the sniper's nest and get a perspective on what Oswald was looking at
as the motorcade turned the corner from Houston.

Okay. Well said. I visited Ford's Theater on a high school field trip
years ago. With an museum employee, we were allowed to go up the narrow
stairs and look inside the president's viewing box. Something you don't
forget. Mark

That is fascinating. You essentially would have been looking at the box
the way booth saw it. I saw a documentary many years ago. If I remember
right their was a vestibule behind the box. Booth had barricaded the outer
door leading into the vestibule and had drilled a peep hole through the
door between the vestibule and the box. I can't remember if that is
something he had done ahead of time. He looked through the peep hole to
see just where Lincoln was sitting. He knew the lines to the play and knew
when the biggest laugh was coming and it was at that point he opened the
door and immediately shot Lincoln with the single shot derringer, then
attacked the army officer with his knife before leaping onto the stage. Is
that the way you remember it being presented?

Yes, that's an accurate summary. I saw the peep hole Booth bored out.
There is a vestibule, and he jammed the the outer door. (Just to be
accurate, we weren't allowed into the viewing box, just got to look in
from the vestibule.) I not sure why he waited for the loudest laugh line
in the play before entering and the pulling the trigger. It really didn't
accomplish anything. Mary Lincoln and their two guests saw him, and
numerous people in the audience had to recognize a famous actor once he
jumped to the stage and uttered his famous vow. So I'm not sure what that
gained him. Maybe he was overthinking it.