Dallas was Valhalla for conspiracy junkies. Our first stop, right in Dealey Plaza where it all happened, was the Conspiracy Museum. This place was interesting to say the least. Eric paid admission with his Visa card, and the guy behind the counter said, ominously, "rip up this receipt because you don't know who might get ahold of your credit card number." Eric wasn't sure if this was all part of the act or if the whole thing was serious. The museum itself was pretty weird. A lot of things like "the conspiracy tree" linking all the modern assassinations, shady arms deals, constitutional crises and international terrorism incidents.

Did John Wilks Booth Disappear?

Tribute to JFK

Eric was pretty impressed with the theory that JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations were carried out by the same people and that Ted Kennedy wasn't really in the car at Chappaquiddick, but was bound and gagged at home while the folks behind his brothers' deaths were staging the whole thing do destroy his presidential bid. Eric actually believed it and wants to investigate further. We also saw a cool movie on the restoration of the Zapruder  Film.

*warning, it's graphically violent. 

The place is worth the trip just to say you've been there, but we couldn't understand how the hell the owners can afford a downtown location like that. Sounds like another conspiracy right there.

After visiting the museum, we ate at a downtown Dallas barbecue. We were seated alone in the basement and got indifferent service, lending credence to Eric's theory that every gentile-owned restaurant has a "Jew Room" where they stick undesirables with noticeably Mediterranean features (the same thing happened in San Antonio and Houston). Despite the affrontery, we ate a lot.  That night, exhausted and stuffed, we bagged all thoughts of partying down in Deep Ellum and crashed at the LaQuinta.

The next day, we visited the belly of the beast: Sixth Floor Museum , located on the 6th floor of the old Texas Schoolbook Depository. It was pretty wild. Most of it was a museum about the life of JFK, but a good part of it took you through the assassination and coverups. We also got an Oswald's eye view shot of Dealey Plaza below. Lee Harvey must have been a hell of a shot. The place was packed and something seemed a little sick about the big memorial to JFK at the place where his head was blown off.

The Sniper's Nest

The Grassy Knoll

Immediately after that we headed for Dealey Plaza to check out the grassy knoll. 

Roaming around and getting a lay of the land, we determined that there had to be a second gunman - JFK's brains couldn't have flown in the direction they did if the shot came from the 6th floor. Finally, we got the hell out of town, moving past the
grassy knoll at 11 miles an hour and disappearing below the underpass as we headed for Cowtown. No shots were heard. 
 

Location of the Head Shot