A Grassy Knoll
I’m in Dallas at Usenix’s Large Installation Systems Administration conference this week, before flying to Manila next month, stopping for a week in England, and 2 weeks in India en route.
The conference is in the fabulous Hyatt Regency Mariott hotel in the historic West End of Dallas, which has access to the observation dome of the Reunion Tower with a 360ยบ view of the city. The whole tower will close for most of next year for refurbishment, so I was pleased to have a chance to visit the observation dome, from which I took this photo with my phone camera. The boxy shaped light orange building in the middle on the left is the Texas School Book Depository from the sixth floor of which Lee Harvey Oswald famously shot Kennedy in 1963 as he was driven past in his cadillac.
Many conspiracy theorists believe there was a second gunman behind “a grassy knoll” who fired the shot that actually killed the president. In my photograph I believe the knoll is the first of the two triangular green areas directly below and across the street from the book depository.
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