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March 20, 2014

A Trip Down Memory Lane of Texas

By Jeremy Lott

DALLAS - It all started on the grassy knoll, and I've got the cellphone picture to prove it.

 

On that warm February day, Conspiracy nuts with notebooks full of pictures sank a big yellow and black GRASSY KNOLL banner into the actual grass embankment in downtown Dallas near the spot where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot that killed President Kennedy on Nov. 23, 1963, as the president's motorcade coursed through Dealey Plaza.

 

They meant it to cast doubt, but it had the opposite effect on me. I jumped behind the banner, arms outstretched, and bid my brother to shoot the picture, quick. Visiting high school cheerleaders shooed us away so they could mark the occasion when they, too, became JFK assassination enthusiasts.

 

Ironically, nascent life is what brought me to the Lone Star State for the first time, in 2012. I learned I was about to be an uncle for the first time. My sister-in-law was with child. The plan was to visit her and my brother Andrew in Dallas before they got bogged down with all things “Little Lott.”Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2014/03/20/texas_what_a_country__for_all_men_164.html

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