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  Dealey Plaza and the Grassy Knoll
This high resolution CAD rendering of Dealey Plaza shows the salient features of the Plaza, which was a WPA project at the edge of Dallas' downtown.
Tons of "suspicious" goings on: The "Black Dog Man," "Badgeman," the "rush to the Knoll" by witnesses in the wake of the shooting, and "smoke on the Knoll." These are all topics dealt with in "'Smoke' on the Grassy Knoll" by Jerry Organ.
One of the ongoing mysteries of Dealey Plaza is the origin of the fragment that hit James Tague.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /dealey.htm   (3686 words)

  
  Dealey Plaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dealey Plaza (IPA pronunciation: [dili]), in the historic West End district of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA), is infamous as the location of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963.
Dealey Plaza is a Dallas city park completed in 1940 on the west edge of downtown Dallas where three streets converge (Main Street, Elm Street, and Commerce Street) to pass under a railroad bridge known locally as the triple underpass.
Dealey Plaza is bounded on the south, east, and north sides by 100+ foot (30+ m) tall buildings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dealey_Plaza   (1002 words)

  
 EarthCam - Dealey Plaza Cam - Viewers Guide
Named by United Press International reporter Merriman Smith moments after the Kennedy assassination, the "grassy knoll" is a sloping hill in Dealey Plaza leading to a concrete wall and picket fence on the north side of Elm Street.
The knoll was to the President's right front during the shooting, although investigators later decided shots originated from the Texas School Book Depository to his right rear.
Views three and six from the sniper's nest show the grassy knoll area.
www.earthcam.com /jfk/grassy.html   (455 words)

  
 Welcome to the Mary Ferrell Foundation
Photographs and films were also taken in Dealey Plaza, which the Warren Commission largely ignored but which were studied by private researchers and later the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Dealey Plaza Conspiracy Witnesses - Staff Report in Volume XII of HSCA Report.
The "grassy knoll" is down and left from there.
www.maryferrell.org /wiki/index.php/Dealey_Plaza   (404 words)

  
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Dealey Plaza, a three-acre park touted at its inception as Dallas' "front door," now serves a distinctly different role.
Dealey is doing and has done in the years he has lived and worked among us," Mr.
Dealey initially resisted, writing that he thought the park should not be named after a living person.
karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Dealey_Plaza/Dealey.txt   (770 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Study Backs Theory of 'Grassy Knoll'
The main thing is when push comes to shove, he increased the degree of confidence that the shot from the grassy knoll was real, not static.
Thomas, by contrast, believes it was the shot from the knoll, seven-tenths of a second earlier, that killed the president.
According to Thomas, the NAS panel made other mistakes: in calculating the position of the grassy knoll shooter, in fixing the time of that shot and in stating the Channel Two recorder had stopped when it hadn't.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A56560-2001Mar25?language=printer   (1103 words)

  
 The shooting in Dealey Plaza - The killing of Kennedy
Few people in dealey Plaza have heard this shot, maybe due to the noise of the crowd and the motors of the cars and motorbikes in the motorcade.
Meanwhile, in Dealey Plaza, some people thrown themselves to the ground while others run to the top of the grassy knoll near the fence to look for the author of the shooting cause they though that the shots came from that location.
Some of the people that reached the top of the grassy knoll were stopped by men that identified themselves as members of the Secret Service.
jfk.iefactory.com /hechos/deai.htm   (543 words)

  
 Texas Twisted | The JFK Assassination Tour: Dealey Plaza
On any given weekend, a trip to Dealey Plaza will result in more than one encounter with an attention-starved conspiracy nut eager to impart to you his view of “what really happened” here in 1963.
It’s one of two pergolas that bookend the north and south sides of Dealey Plaza.
That floor is now home to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, where the window has been preserved in an artificial half-opened position.
www.texastwisted.com /attr/jfk/03   (758 words)

  
 Dealey Plaza - Dallas, Texas
The "grassy knoll" is at the left of the photo at the white structure.
Entry to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is at the left side of the building.
There is a scale model of Dealey Plaza on display that the FBI constructed and used during the Warren Commission investigation.
www.worldoflongmire.com /dailycomment/dallas   (1368 words)

  
 Key Item of JFK Conspiracy Sold on Internet - Picket Fence from Dealey Plaza Now Owned by Internet Casino :: Mon, 27 ...
The white picket fence from the famous grassy knoll where the supposed second shooter assassinated President John F. Kennedy was sold through Lelands.com, an auction site specializing in sports and Americana memorabilia.
This sectioned white picket fence from Dealey Plaza has remained virtually untouched for 36 years since the fateful day that saw one of America's most beloved Presidents gunned down.
Looming over the infamous grassy knoll, it has stood as a reminder of the incident as well as the conspiracy it spawned.
www.send2press.com /newswire/print/news_2005-06-0627-005.shtml   (429 words)

  
 Dallas Sights - Hosted by The Watermelon Kid
A statue of Dealey, who was born in England, overlooks the plaza, through which Dallas' three principal thoroughfares run: Commerce Street, Main Street, and Elm Street - the street on which the assassination took place.
This historical marker was placed at Dealey Plaza and dedicated on November 22, 1993, the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination.
This is a view of Elm Street, as seen from the so-called "Grassy Knoll." It shows the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets, with the Dallas County Records Building (the white building) on the corner and the old County Jail beside it.
www.watermelon-kid.com /dallas-sights/jfk.htm   (659 words)

  
 Trip to Texas on Labor Day Weekend 2000
This is the historic marker in Dealey Plaza dealing with President Kennedy's tragic death.
This is the spot directly where Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza and where the memorial marker was placed in line with on the side of the street of which is pictured above.
Grassy Knoll and the Picket Fence where some say a shot was fired from.
members.tripod.com /buggy16/texas.html   (199 words)

  
 Dealey Plaza in Dallas is Focus of 40th Anniversary Observance of JFK Assassination - 2003-11-22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dealey Plaza in Dallas is Focus of 40th Anniversary Observance of JFK Assassination - 2003-11-22
A woman sang the old spiritual "Amazing Grace" on the grassy knoll on Dealey Plaza, where the fatal shots were fired 40 years ago.
The mystique surrounding JFK and his tragic end will continue to draw many of them to Dealey Plaza in the future, but the number of visitors may diminish as the people who remember President Kennedy grow older and the number of people born after his death grows ever larger.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2003-11/a-2003-11-22-23-Dealey.cfm   (715 words)

  
 Grassy Knoll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hill thought the shots had come from behind her on the grassy knoll and as soon as the firing stopped she ran towards the wooden fence in an attempt to find the gunman.
She told of a man running up toward the now-famed grassy knoll pursued by other men she believed to be policemen.
Poorman said her mother thought the shots came from the grassy knoll nearby, not the book depository across the street, and ran to the area thinking she would be able to spot the gunman.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKgrassyN.htm   (4131 words)

  
 Extra Bullets and Missed Shots in Dealey Plaza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One can infer from the documents that the rifle might have even been found in Dealey Plaza, although the documents never actually say where the weapon was located on the day of the shooting.
This miss is the bullet which struck the south Main Street curb in Dealey Plaza during the shooting.
Bullets fired lower elevations and from other buildings in Dealey Plaza, such as the grassy knoll, the County Records Building, and the second floor of the Dal-Tex Building, could have barely missed Kennedy's head and then landed in the plaza.
ourworld-top.cs.com /mikegriffith1/id139.htm   (2815 words)

  
 Eyewitness Lee Bowers: Oliver Stone's JFK: The JFK 100: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans ...
Bowers did not associate any such shot with the knoll area; he could only guess that the shots he heard came from "up against the School Depository Building or near the mouth of the triple underpass"; he could not even venture a guess as to which it had been.
At that point, regardless of what it was that had caught his eye, he saw absolutely nothing out of the ordinary, did not believe any shots had been fired from the knoll, and, as photographic evidence corroborates, the police began converging upon the area almost immediately.
The bottom line is that if anything out of the ordinary occurred behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll that day, Lee E. Bowers, Jr., did not see it from his elevated railroad tower a short distance away.
www.jfk-online.com /jfk100bowers.html   (1684 words)

  
 Dealey Plaza in Dallas Fort Worth, TX - AOL City Guide
Dealey Plaza will be forever remembered as the area where onlookers watched in horror as President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov.
Behind the structures is the open field area that faces the infamous grassy knoll.
Whether you believe Oswald acted alone or you firmly believe in the gunman-on-the-grassy-knoll theory, a stroll through Dealey Plaza is a solemn reminder of a devastating event that changed the course of American history.
cityguide.aol.com /dallas/entertainment/dealey-plaza/v-88944   (346 words)

  
 Smoke on the grassy knoll: Oliver Stone's JFK: The JFK 100: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans ...
Smoke on the grassy knoll: Oliver Stone's JFK: The JFK 100: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination
On the overpass near Dealey Plaza, S. Holland, a tan, elderly, leather-faced signal supervisor, points to the picket fence for Jim [Garrison] and Lou [Ivon].
Oliver Stone is correct that both S. Holland and Richard C. Dodd reported seeing smoke in the area of the grassy knoll, as did their co-workers, James L. Simmons and Clemon Earl Johnson; there is no doubt about that.
www.jfk-online.com /jfk100smoke.html   (622 words)

  
 Dealey Plaza, Kennedy Assassination Site / Virtual Visitor
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas at Dealey Plaza.
The grassy knoll is right behind the small group of 5 tourists on the sidewalk.
JFK was shot as his car passed in front of the spot where I shot this.
www.virtualvisitor.com /dealey/dealey.html   (185 words)

  
 Killer on the Knoll
Many of the Dealey Plaza witnesses believed at least one shot came from the Grassy Knoll, which is visible in the background of this photo.
This figure is at the exact spot where Sam Holland and six fellow railroad workers observed a puff of smoke, where Ed Hoffman saw a man fire a shot at the President, where Lee Bowers noted "some commotion", and where the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined a second gunman fired a high-powered rifle.
Films taken in Dealey Plaza shortly after the assassination show police and spectators rushing en masse towards that corner of the stockade fence.
jfkresearch.freehomepage.com /KillerontheKnoll.htm   (287 words)

  
 The JFK Assassination Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Thousands visited the assassination site during the week of November 22, 2003, with thousands at Dealey Plaza at 12:30pm on the 22nd.
At Dealey Plaza there are always tourists, every day, anytime of the day.
The JFK Memorial, a block north of Dealey Plaza, appropriately across the street from the Conspiracy Museum.
www.durangotexas.com /eyesontexas/dallas/jfk.htm   (419 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Fence from grassy knoll up for auction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
NEW YORK (AP) — Conspiracy theorists and collectors, take note: A section of fencing from the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas' Dealey Plaza is going up for auction.
The fence was rescued from the junk heap five years ago by Dealey Plaza tour guide Ronald Rice.
The curator at the Sixth Floor Museum overlooking Dealey Plaza says many of the fence's wooden pickets were replaced over the years.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-05-14-knoll-fence_x.htm   (413 words)

  
 JFK LANCER PHONY SECRET SERVICE AGENTS IN DEALEY PLAZA
It was there [pointing to a spot on the knoll]--and we were stopped by a man in a suit and he had an overcoat--over his arm and he, he, I saw a gun under that overcoat.
For one thing, the various "spectator" government agents mentioned by Posner could not have reached the parking lot behind the grassy knoll so quickly after the shooting; none of them could have been there in time to be encountered by Officer Smith.
Often overlooked in discussions on phony SS agents in Dealey Plaza is the disturbing account of Sergeant D. Harkness, (Posner, for example, does not even mention it.).
www.jfklancer.com /ManWho.html   (3193 words)

  
 Texas Monthly: JFK Extra - Dealey Plaza Revisited
At 12:30, as the open limousine carrying the Kennedys and the Connallys moved west on Elm past Dealey Plaza, shots rang out.
They were fired at the motorcade on Elm Street, starting just past the oak tree on the north side of Elm and stopping before the limousine reached the second lamp post on the north side of the street.
Police at Dealey questioned eye witnesses and immediately began searching the Texas School Book Depository, a textbook distribution facility facing Dealey Plaza at 411 Elm.
www.texasmonthly.com /ranch/jfk/time.php   (374 words)

  
 The Men Who Killed Kennedy: JFK assassination investigation: men, who, killed, kennedy, men who killed kennedy, who ...
What all of these witnesses have in common, of course, is their insistence that one or more shots originated from the grassy knoll.
A different perspective is presented in an article by Jerry Organ, who believes no shots at all were fired from the knoll.
is that if one assumes the backward motion to have been caused by a gunshot, the trajectory indicated by this motion is incompatible with a shot from the grassy knoll, which would have actually been at an angle perpendicular to the President's limousine.
www.jfk-online.com /tmwkk.html   (2536 words)

  
 Tour of Tragedies - The Alamo, Dealey Plaza, Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial 4/6
Here is the grassy knoll and the Bryan Colonnade.
The picket fence where the shots came from is behind the thin white cement ledges that extend to the left of the Colonnade.
The sun has set on Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
www.visi.com /~tomcat/travelogue/sadpoc/sadpoc0004.shtml   (438 words)

  
 A Return to the Scene of the Crime
police, FBI and Secret Service, who were asked where they thought the shots originated, said from the Grassy Knoll.
Dealey Plaza today is like the silent stage of a forgotten Shakespearean tragedy or, better yet, a well preserved Civil War battlefield signifying a dynamic shift of history.
Douglas Herman recently returned from a two week research trip to Texas, including Dealey Plaza, the Texas Theatre, Johnson City and LBJ Ranch.
www.strike-the-root.com /4/herman/herman2.html   (569 words)

  
 Dealey Plaza History / D in the Heart of Texas / JFK Assassination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dealey Plaza History / D in the Heart of Texas / JFK Assassination
This book is an essential history for anyone who has ever been to, or has an interest in Dealey Plaza, the Dallas, Texas site of the November 22, 1963 assassination of President, John F. Kennedy.
You may have gone up to the Sixth Floor Exhibit at Dealey Plaza, walked around behind the stockade fence, or on the “Grassy Knoll”.
users2.ev1.net /~MickeyD/Book00.htm   (494 words)

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