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Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
JFKs motorcade route was published in advance by Dallas newspapers, this week 1963:
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Bayard
(24,145 posts)Oswald could scope out positions well ahead of time.
rsdsharp
(10,095 posts)because Elm was the only one of the two westbound streets going under the triple overpass that would get them to the freeway that would take them to the Trade Mart for the Presidents speech.
There was no scoping out. There was only the happenstance of Oswald seeing the route in the paper three days before the appearance, and making a decision to try to seize the fame he had been denied by his failed assassination attempt on Edwin Walker in April.
nightwing1240
(1,996 posts)An interesting read if you have the time.
https://www.history.com/news/lee-harvey-oswald-other-target
rsdsharp
(10,095 posts)Historic NY
(37,803 posts)I really think he was programmed by the Soviets