I'd ask you what you found inaccurate, but that would probably get this nice thread bumped to D&D, so I won't.
Wow, trippy thing to see. Oswald belting out some rock. I saw Oswald get it live on TV. I was at my cousin's house, sitting on the floor, and as he was coming out we were cussing him as much as we could get away with in front of our mothers. Everyone loved Kennedy. Hard to describe just how much without living then. When Ruby shot him, we jumped up and cheered. We were too young (just in the 7th grade) to understand what a catastrophe it was to any decent investigation. The whole period was surreal.
You're welcome, there are several cool manipulations on that site. I too saw Oswald get it on TV, as well as seeing JFK motorcade in Houston the day before he was shot. He visited the old NASA building which was in my old neighborhood. These were some of my earliest (visual) memories as I was only four at the time. Not old enough to realize the import of the moment but indelibly etched in memory nonetheless. It was a turbulent decade to grow up or come of age: civil rights, Vietnam, assassinations....sigh Here's some others... Jimi and Monks this one is a bit over the top for those whose patriotism is a bit sensitive... Kent State and Iowa Jima
We were at the motorcade, between Sims bayou and the Park Place circle. LBJ, Lady Bird, Connally and Mrs. Connally, Ralph Yarborough, JFK and Jackie, and a bunch of others I can't recall. We were at the front of the huge crowd along Broadway, thousands and thousands, and cheering like crazy. They couldn't have been more than 20 feet away. That's how I remember it. Small world. I saw Kennedy give his famous, "Going to the Moon by the end of this decade" speech at Rice stadium. My Mom took me out of school for it. excerpt: "We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours." The guy could give a speech. I had chills listening to him. I've never experienced charisma that came close, excepting some rock performances I've seen, but that's different.
Not a photo, but potentially history changing in the future as well. Is this YoYao? Or this? Wasn't his original moniker Coolpet? Sure sounds like him. C'mon BBS historians and detectives, has YoYao been found or not? Validate or invalidate.
Man, Kennedy did a lot of travelling over those couple of days. I didn't realize he was in Houston the day before. He also gave a speech in San Antonio on the 21st of November and he was in Fort Worth before flying to Dallas on the 22nd (and I always thought it was weird that they flew the whole shebang to Dallas from Fort Worth rather than simply driving the 30-some-odd miles, but when you're the President, I guess you don't do that sort of thing). I hadn't been born yet, so I wasn't there for any of it.
He really was barn-storming the state. Austin was next after Dallas. They had the tables set at Palmer Auditorium. He made the Rice speech a year earlier. I think that was less overtly political, although I could be wrong. This is one the things I miss most about Houston...
