Presidential Museums Trip Day 6 -- September 13, 2009

Today was a sobering day for the group. We visited the Dallas Sixth Floor Museum in the old Texas Schoolbook Depository. Photography is not allowed so we don't have any pictures to share and, perhaps, it is for the best. No photos could accurately portray the feelings of being in the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy.

As we proceeded through the exhibits, we saw a timeline of events...from the arrival of Air Force One to the crowds in Dallas waving and welcoming President and Mrs. Kennedy. From the shooting, the funeral procession, and the lighting of the eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery to the reconstruction of the assassination and the Warren Report, we saw it all. The group was silent as we watched old television broadcasts, especially the one when Walter Cronkite's voice cracked as he announced the president's death to the nation. No one left the building untouched but we were glad that we experienced the Sixth Floor Museum.

Having started out in Austin, Texas and driving to Dallas to tour the Sixth Floor Museum, we ate a quick lunch and spent the rest of the day traveling from Dallas to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Today was a long and rainy day in our motor coach, and, after a delicious dinner at Islamorada (inside the Bass Pro Shop), we were ready to check into the hotel for the night.