Louisiana feels like home

We started out this morning driving to Ft. Worth/Dallas.  We stopped in Dallas to visit the sight of the John F. Kennedy assassination from 1963.  The Texas Schoolbook Depository Building is now a museum about the assassination.  It was very interesting to look at all the pictures and see film of that fateful day so long ago.  On the sixth floor where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed JFK, there was absolutely no photography allowed.  We were able to take some pictures on the seventh floor directly above his perch.  We could see Elm Street and the grassy knoll that has become infamous.  It was very moving, felt as if we were reliving the events of that day again.

As we drove into Dallas we noticed the grass had all turned green and the trees were leafing out.  It felt as if we were back in the south again after all these days.  But, when we crossed the state line into Louisiana, it really felt like home.

We are spending the night in Shreveport and plan to drive home to Birmingham tomorrow.  We do plan to stop  in Vicksburg for a little historical sightseeing and a side trip on the Mississippi Delta Tamale trail (Google it).

The Dallas skyline

The Texas Schoolbook Depository Building

View out the window one floor above Lee Harvey Oswald's perch.

The window one floor above Lee Harvey Oswald's perch.

Elm Street, with an X marking the spot when the first shot hit JFK. Oswald was at the right corner window on the next to the top floor.  The grassy knoll is to the left.

 

The grassy knoll.

We are staying at the Wingate in Shreveport, we googled to find it.