JFK Trolley Tour

With the four years that Caleb served on the Youth Advisory Council for The Sixth Floor Museum we got to see lots of really great pieces of history.  Some of my favorites were witnessing the taping of the Living History series. These were key people on the day of JFK's assassination and events that followed.  We were also able to be on hand when Stephen King debuted his 11.22.63: A Novel. 

Caleb was immersed in the events he has a great working knowledge of the events that transpired during that time in American history.   Now it was time to give the girls a better understanding of that time period.  We took the JFK Trolley Tour departing Daley Plaza.  The trolley traced the parade route and placed related to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. 

The tour traced the route Lee Harvey Oswald traveled after the shooting, including the house where he rented a room. After the shooting, Oswald took a cab to his boarding room, 2 or 3 miles from the Texas School Book Depository, then on to where Oswald shoot the police officer J.D. Tippit then on to the Texas Theatre where he was captured. All interesting in the timing and location from downtown. 

It was interest to hear the actual audio of the Dallas PD calling in Tippit's shooting. The Dallas Police Department arrested Oswald for the killing Officer Tippit only late to tie back to the JFK assignation later in the day, when they realized Oswald was the only Texas School Book Depository employee unaccounted for. 

Last portion of tour was back to the Dallas City and County Jails where Oswald was shot. We also saw where Ruby's night club was located.  We also saw the street entrance where Ruby slid in with reporters to kill Oswald.

It was really fascinating to lay out the pieces in a sequential narrated fashion.  It was also amazing how small downtown Dallas was in 1963!  Caleb would love it!

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 1:9