The Texas agenda- as it stands now.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10TH
Tomorrow, I will depart from Dulles International in Loudoun County, Virginia. I will be flying to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas.
My appointment to pick up the rental car is 4:00 PM local time. My plan is to drive straight to Holy Trinity Catholic church where I will attend evening Mass.
After Mass, I will proceed to the hotel. It seems like a pretty nice, high end hotel there in Dallas. It's called the Magnolia. It sure wasn't cheap but this is Dallas on a holiday weekend.
Once I settle in, I might catch part of the Alabama vs Georgia game, might do a podcast or might go for a walk. The hotel is literally an 11-minute walk from Dealey Plaza where tragedy struck 63 years ago.
As you can see, Commerce Street, Main Street and Elm Street all fold in together into what is called "the triple underpass". Commerce handles the flow of traffic entering the city, Elm handles the flow of traffic leaving and Main Street handles the vehicles headed into the center, heart of the city. Our hotel is on Commerce, about 11 minutes away from the plaza by foot.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 11TH
After breakfast, I walk to the group. We will be meeting off Main Street behind the Dallas County Courthouse. It is a fully set up and in-depth tour that takes 3 full hours.
I suspect I will learn a lot in the tour and I imagine the experience is going to be emotionally overwhelming given that so much of my life and identity is tied up in what happened on that day. One thing I can assure you that the presentation won't do is convince me that one gumnan, acting by himself, did this.
John Kennedy was caught in the crossfire of a triangle of 3 gunmen at points A, B and C.
After the official presentation, we have a scheduled live podcast. Exactly where I will be setup, I'm not yet sure but it will be somewhere in the area and I should have loads of pictures to share.
After the podcast, I plan to spend the better part of the remainder of Sunday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe there in Dallas. I probably will pick up some rosaries at the gift shop.
What a preparation this will be for me to go to the real Guadalupe in Mexico, next month.
MONDAY OCTOBER 12TH
In what will be stunningly emotional trip for me, I will drive the exact route the motorcade took, down Elm Street, past the Book depository, past the grassy knoll, under the underpass and on to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
That is where he died and I understand there is an exhibit there.
After that, I will drive across the border to Oklahoma to check off that box and then return to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport for the return flight home.
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