Post by John Duncan on May 12, 2023 19:27:47 GMT -5
Timeline For Dallas Visit
by Raymond Gallagher 5/2011
Edited by John Duncan
The Decision To Visit Dallas Made In June
The basic decision to visit Texas was made by the President [John F. Kennedy], the Vice-President Lyndon Johnson and John B. Connally Jr., who was he governor of Texas on JUNE 5, 1963, at the Cortez Hotel in El Paso, Texas. (WR, p.28)
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Dallas Before the Visit
The two Dallas newspapers provided their readers with a steady stream of information and speculation about the trip, beginning on September 13, when the Times-Herald announced in a front-page article that President Kennedy was planning a brief 1-day tour of four cities -- Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston. Both Dallas papers cited White House sources on September 26 as confirming the President's intention to visit Texas on November 21 and 22, with Dallas scheduled as one of the stops. (WR, p. 40)
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Even though an APRIL article (CE 1972) was the first public announcement for a fall visit, explicit details were not resolved. The [Warren] Commission believed that it would be unreasonable to believe that the eventual events of November 22 could have been planned as early as April since the location of the luncheon was not decided until November 14. It would have been impossible for Oswald, or any other conspirators to plan the ambush on Dealey Plaza. The Commission concluded that Lee's job at the TSBD was a coincidence and his recent employment (Oct 16) in the building had nothing to do with the assassination.
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The Secret Service examined three potential sites for the luncheon. One building, Market Hall was not available for November 22; the second, the Woman's Building, at the State Fair Grounds was not selected because it lacked food handling facilities and had other disadvantages. The Trade Mart was decided on and the parade route was selected and agreed on November 14.
The luncheon site was not an issue in the final results because the Trade Mart and Market Hall were in the same section of Dallas. The motorcade route would not have changed if Market Hall had been the choice.
On November 8, the decision was made to allot 45 minutes to the parade from Love Field to the luncheon site. The route selected measured 10 miles and could be covered in the 45 minutes. From the Trade Mart, back to the airport, was only four miles, by the most direct route. The route selected impressed the agents as a natural and desirable one. President Franklin Roosevelt had used almost the same route in 1936. It had wide streets and guaranteed that the largest crowds would be afforded the opportunity to see the President.
There were charges that the route was changed to take the President past the TSBD . This is absurd. Anyone living in Dallas knows that the only direct access to the Trade Mart or Market Hall was via Houston Street and Elm St. from Main Street.
Guaranteed, if the luncheon was going to be held on the runway of Love Field, there would have been a parade down Main Street and in front of the TSBD at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963.
Even the final authority on the assassination, Gerald Posner, got it wrong. He said that "While Oswald was on a twenty-hour bus ride that consumed all of September 26, a White House spokesman made the FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT that President Kennedy would make a brief trip to Texas in November..." (Gerald Posner, "Case Closed", p. 172)
Posner did have the assassination date right in his book, but not much else.
by Raymond Gallagher 5/2011
Edited by John Duncan
The Decision To Visit Dallas Made In June
The basic decision to visit Texas was made by the President [John F. Kennedy], the Vice-President Lyndon Johnson and John B. Connally Jr., who was he governor of Texas on JUNE 5, 1963, at the Cortez Hotel in El Paso, Texas. (WR, p.28)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/pages/WCReport_0026b.gif
Dallas Before the Visit
The two Dallas newspapers provided their readers with a steady stream of information and speculation about the trip, beginning on September 13, when the Times-Herald announced in a front-page article that President Kennedy was planning a brief 1-day tour of four cities -- Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston. Both Dallas papers cited White House sources on September 26 as confirming the President's intention to visit Texas on November 21 and 22, with Dallas scheduled as one of the stops. (WR, p. 40)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/pages/WCReport_0032b.gif
Even though an APRIL article (CE 1972) was the first public announcement for a fall visit, explicit details were not resolved. The [Warren] Commission believed that it would be unreasonable to believe that the eventual events of November 22 could have been planned as early as April since the location of the luncheon was not decided until November 14. It would have been impossible for Oswald, or any other conspirators to plan the ambush on Dealey Plaza. The Commission concluded that Lee's job at the TSBD was a coincidence and his recent employment (Oct 16) in the building had nothing to do with the assassination.
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh23/pages/WH_Vol23_0431b.jpg
The Secret Service examined three potential sites for the luncheon. One building, Market Hall was not available for November 22; the second, the Woman's Building, at the State Fair Grounds was not selected because it lacked food handling facilities and had other disadvantages. The Trade Mart was decided on and the parade route was selected and agreed on November 14.
The luncheon site was not an issue in the final results because the Trade Mart and Market Hall were in the same section of Dallas. The motorcade route would not have changed if Market Hall had been the choice.
On November 8, the decision was made to allot 45 minutes to the parade from Love Field to the luncheon site. The route selected measured 10 miles and could be covered in the 45 minutes. From the Trade Mart, back to the airport, was only four miles, by the most direct route. The route selected impressed the agents as a natural and desirable one. President Franklin Roosevelt had used almost the same route in 1936. It had wide streets and guaranteed that the largest crowds would be afforded the opportunity to see the President.
There were charges that the route was changed to take the President past the TSBD . This is absurd. Anyone living in Dallas knows that the only direct access to the Trade Mart or Market Hall was via Houston Street and Elm St. from Main Street.
Guaranteed, if the luncheon was going to be held on the runway of Love Field, there would have been a parade down Main Street and in front of the TSBD at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963.
Even the final authority on the assassination, Gerald Posner, got it wrong. He said that "While Oswald was on a twenty-hour bus ride that consumed all of September 26, a White House spokesman made the FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT that President Kennedy would make a brief trip to Texas in November..." (Gerald Posner, "Case Closed", p. 172)
Posner did have the assassination date right in his book, but not much else.