JFK assassination route from Google Earth

This is a video from Google Earth that follows the path JFK’s motorcade took shortly before he was assassinated.

[RandomDudeOne]

A good follow up to this video would be to track Oswald's locations from when he left the school book depository until his capture in the movie theater.

[scattygirl]

Loving these videos. I've heard/read this story *many* times now, but seeing it all put onto a map pulls all the threads together so much more effectively and memorably. Really great teaching aid.

[happysawfish]

Keep up the good work Forrest. Interesting food for thought. Don't listen to the close minded detractors. Bless their hearts.

[chickencat]

You should also show the route lee Harvey Oswald took until they caught him

[propbraker]

I recently had the pleasure of watching this video a few weeks ago, and visited the plaza a week ago. Was in the city to visit family for x-mas. I went to each spot you pointed out and stood there, very cool stuff. It was like I was reliving history back in time. I actually looked for the section of cement that the Warren commission cut out, the section that may have had the area where the bullet ricocheted off of. I could see where the new concrete section looked different than the other concrete sections. Very cool stuff. I read that the original section is housed at a museum, museum of natural history perhaps, along with the "magic" bullet. Thanks for the video! So very cool!

[mdaley]

I'm going to reminisce for a bit. I was 9 years old and out on the playground at school after lunch when I saw the horrified looks from the teachers as they all congregated together. I got close enough to hear them mention that President Kennedy has been shot and killed in Dallas Texas. In my young mind, and for many years going forward, the city of Dallas had some evil connotation connected to it that took years for me to get over. When we came in to sit at our desks, we all looked at each other trying to get a grasp on what we had heard. The Principle came over the speaker system that is piped into each classroom and announced that Kennedy had been killed and he asked that we all have a moment of silence. I later heard that some kids in some Dallas schools had clapped when they heard about it. I have been forever fascinated by the Zapruder film from that point on. It was a lot to absorb at that age and had a huge impression on me.

[vincenzodangelo]

This is what happened that morning of November 22, 1963 in Dallas and the Zapruder video speaks very clearly. The presidential limousine takes Elm Street and after a few meters the first shot fired by Nicoletti starts who, together with Rosselli, was hidden in the Dal Tex Building. The first bullet misses its target and hits the sidewalk of the triple railroad crossing at the end of the square and a splinter ends up in the face of James Tague, a passerby who was standing there. The second bullet hits Kennedy in the throat, and as you can see in the footage, the president puts his hands around his neck and Governor Connally turns back to understand what happened. The third bullet misses and ends up on the lawn where it is later found by an FBI man and Deputy Buddy Walthers. The fourth bullet hits Connally who emits a grimace of pain as seen in the video and brings his right hand to his stomach because he accuses an immediate pain and then the bullet pierces his right wrist and plants itself in the thigh of his left leg. The fifth bullet hits Kennedy in the back of the head and the sixth bullet, fired by James Files hiding on the grassy knoll half a second after the fifth shot, sends both blood and Kennedy's head back, and the brain leaking was due to pressure. of the sixth bullet that had left an apple-sized hole behind Kennedy's head, as evidenced by photos of 14 people bringing their hands to the same spot on their heads. I say with certainty that the bullets were 6 because it seems that a shot was fired about every three seconds, that is the time to reload the rifle. Returning to Connally, which is the key to clarifying the mystery well, there is a lot to say. 1) First of all, from the angle in which Oswald would have found himself shooting, which was about 45 degrees, only Kennedy and no one else would have hit, the bullet could not in any way make a deviation and then hit the governor. 2) When Kennedy is shot Connally turns around to see what happens and stays there for about three seconds, the time to reload the shot in the rifle; if the governor had been hit by the magic bullet, at the same time as the president, he would have had the same reaction as Kennedy and would have neither the way nor the strength to look back. 3) Governor Connally when he is wounded is still turned and you see a grimace of pain as I mentioned before him and then turn forward again and collapse on his wife's legs. 4) In the video you can see how Connally bumps his head in front of the glass that separates him from the driver's and assistant's seats. 5) Do you know why Connally was hit? Both because Kennedy threw himself on his wife's right shoulder, because bending over did not hinder the trajectory of the third bullet that almost grazed him hitting the governor, and because the shot was fired by Nicoletti from the window of the Dal Tex Building and reached the governor, because Kennedy was leaning towards his wife. So, not only does the first missile reveal where the shot really came from, but also what hit Connally. Indisputable and real evidence, but unfortunately denied by many, including the Warren commission which veiled so much evidence.

[mdcecichannel]

Thank you for providing this illustration. It appears that you did so with the very best of intentions, and it was helpful. For those who are picking this apart, give it a rest. IMO, Mr. Haggerty was merely trying to illustrate, to the best of his ability, the location of events that took place on that horrible day.

[BrittKatSlat]

Your voice is so soothing!! Thanks for the educational video.

[trishg]

John Connellys wife who was in the car said a bullet definitely came from the front..I watched an interview with her a few weeks ago and it was so interesting.

[joehackenstuff]

Even more interesting is the route Oswald took after the assassination

[qanommonsense]

Few people know that the first shot was fired in the proximity that you speak of. The rifle you refer to in the 6th floor window was likely to have been fired by Malcomb Wallace. The only purpose of firing that shot was to focus attention to the fact that someone had shot from that window. The bullet hit the curb down near the Triple underpass, and a ricochet from it hit James Tague in the face. Simultaneously to that shot someone fired a shot from the vicinity of the Triple Underpass. That shot went through the windshield of the windshield and hit JFK in the Throat. If you search through enough footage you will find footage of a man standing by a column elevated above everyone else. He waves a pennant with his right hand and hodls his left hand above his head also. When he drops the pennant it is the signal for the first round of shooters. They tried to get the shooters to shoot at the same time to give the appearance of one gunman. If you go through everyone's statements, most witnesses say they thought they head firecrackers. Dr. Charles Crenshaw wrote two books where he explains that the first shot was an "entry" wound to the neck.

[aaronpaterson]

I've always been fascinated by the fact that two of LBJ's personal friends owned buildings on the corner of Elm Street and Houston Street TSBD & DAL-TEX buildings. What's the odds of a President being shot in a location where his Vice President's friends owned buildings.

On the morning of the assassination Johnson went to Kennedy's suite and asked that Texas Governor John Connolly (LBJ's friend) be removed from Kennedy's limousine and move Texas Senator Yarborough (LBJ's enemy) into his seat.

Kennedy refused his request. Where Was Kennedy shot? In Texas.

What was Lyndon Johnson's home State? Texas.

The Secret Service broke Texas Law by removing the body of the president slain in Texas out of that State.

Parkland Hospital Coroner, Earl Rose refused to let.them take Kennedy's body but he was pushed out of the way. Johnson got Dallas district attorney Wade to let them take the body although he would be breaking the law.

Earl Rose performed the autopsies on J.D. Tippit, Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby.

In Chief Jesse Curry's memoirs in later years, he said:

"WE DON'T HAVE PROOF THAT OSWALD FIRED THE RIFLE, AND NEVER DID. NOBODY'S YET BEEN ABLE TO PUT HIM IN THAT BUILDING WITH A GUN IN HIS HAND."

Oswald had something to do with some plot in Dallas.that day but I don't think he realised what a set.up he was in. Some say he was meant to be killed when escaping or hiding, John Martino said Oswald went to the Texas Theatre to meet someone who was to get him flown out of the country then eliminated. Martino also said among the 20 odd moviegoers in the theatre was a young Cuban gunman who the police unknowingly allowed to leave. That's why Lee Harvey Oswald was scared as hell whilst in custody as well as belligerent or as they said (arrogant).

[erico]

How come you didn’t show the grassy knoll and explain the witnesses that seen shooters there?

[Gyrocage]

If you ever decide to revisit this subject you may want to show Oswald’s supposed route, his boarding house, where Officer Tippit was murdered, and the movie theater where Oswald was captured - for those of us too lazy to research it ourselves.

[jennifercole]

"Where Lee Harvey Oswald ALLEGEDLY fired from..." is the term we use when someone has not been convicted of a crime.

[rollydoucet]

Great videos. I enjoy them very much. Thank you.

[BiffBuffchest]

Wrong Parkland. That is the new Parkland, the one you are looking for is across Harry Hines.

[roberthussey]

At 0:54 you said they made a right turn onto Harwood from Cedar Springs.... it was a left... and the gentleman said that Abraham Zapruder didn’t start filming until after the car turned onto Elm Street ...According to Zapruder’s secretary Marilyn Sitzman who was standing right behind Abe and holding onto him said that Zapruder started filming before the car turned the corner.... So who is correct....a witness who was standing 12 inches from Abe while he was filming or what you see on an EDITED film... Look up the film on YouTube called The Zapruder Film Mystery with Douglass Horne where he interviews a man by the name of Dino Brugioni...who worked at NPIC. ... ( the National Photographic interpretation Center) According to Dino, who saw the film on Saturday night Nov. 23, the matter he saw fly from the head is a lot different than is seen now...

[phillipaspinall]

Well researched and well presented. To the point. Most enjoyable glad I subscribed.