Cost of Freedom Tour Day Four/Dallas

Well, I go all the way through the downtown along Commerce, finally find Main Street and realize this is the motorcade route and will take me back to Dealey Plaza.

Here it is. I pass the spot where Mike stood in 1963.

Here I go, down the dip.

There is Mike on the Grassy Knoll with another group, pointing up to the Dal-Tex rooftop, where he says one of the shooters was, along with two behind the fence and one more on the sixth floor.

"Not Oswald."

Mike has never left Dealey Plaza. He never will.

I'm exiting soon, with President John F. Kennedy still etched into my brain in flaky yellow chalk.

And then — boom — there I am, on the "X". The knoll is right there. There's the overpass.

I turn right to take 35-E.

In a few moments I pass Market Hall, where Kennedy was supposed to speak at a luncheon, then a few moments later the exit for Love Airfield, where the Kennedy's landed just before noon that day and where they left later in the day with the president's body in a box.


See ya.

— Mike

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