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Pegasus: The Beloved Unofficial Mascot of Dallas.
Dallas has become associated with a number of iconic symbols, from the Texas Fair's towering Big Tex, to the Reunion Tower or J.R. from the TV hit series, but the most famous one is definitely Pegasus, Downtown Dallas’ legendary flying horse.
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Stop The Tape - Magic Bullet Vs. Single Bullet
The parade, despite the misgivings of everyone around Kennedy, had been a success. Thousands of people stood along the route waving at the president as his car rode past. When the long line of 17 cars made a right on Houston, Nellie Connally tipped her head back to the president and said “Mr. President, you can’t say the people of Dallas don’t love you”...
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John Connally - The Real Target?
John Bowden Connally, Jr was born on a cotton farm in Floresville, Texas where, due to his hard, labour intensive lifestyle, he earned the status of “a barefoot boy of mule-plowed furrows”. After earning his law degree at the University of Texas in Austin in 1941, Connally was commissioned into the United States Naval Reserve serving in many major battles in the Pacific Theater ...
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Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
At 12:20 p.m., in the basement of the Dallas police station, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. The whole incident was captured on live television, shocking viewers who witnessed the crime. Here are a few of the most popular questions we are asked during our JFK Tour related to Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Popular Conspiracy Theories About the JFK Assassination
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down as he rode in a motorcade through Dallas. That killing, and the subsequent murder of his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald while in police custody, traumatized a nation so intensely that the feeling has never quite faded.
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The Other Victims of the JFK Assassination
People of a certain age remember exactly where they were on November 22, 1963, when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. President John F. Kennedy was not the only one hit when gunfire erupted in downtown Dallas.
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Top landmarks related to the JFK Assassination events in Dallas
John F. Kennedy is perhaps one of the most memorable US presidents more than a century since his birth and half-century since his death, Kennedy remains a formidable presence in politics and popular culture. JFK's life is an utterly unique story -- of family, politics, war brinksmanship, Hollywood hanky-panky, chronic illness, assassination, and a conspiracy subplot that won't die.
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