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Thursday, December 25, 2008

The Assassination Of Lav F. Kennedy



Last Fri was the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Sixth Floor Museum has released an interactive storey map which recounts the events of Nov 22, 1963 inward Dallas, Texas. Eyewitness to History: An Interactive Map of the Kennedy Motorcade provides a step-by-step ask to the day's events from the President's arrival at Dallas Love Field to his assassination at Dealey Plaza.

The map uses film, photos as well as oral histories to retell the storey of the Kennedy's arrival at Dallas Lover Field, their journeying through Dallas as well as John F. Kennedy's assassination inward Dealey Plaza. As you lot follow the path of the President's motorcade dwelling household movies as well as photographs are used to document the journey. These are accompanied yesteryear a divulge of eyewitness accounts from individuals who turned out on the 24-hour interval to run across the President boot the bucket through their neighborhoods.

Obviously this map tin hold upward upsetting as well as it does include dwelling household painting exhibit footage of the shooting itself.