Dallas Times Herald newspaper clipping with map of motorcade route
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Dallas Times Herald newspaper clipping with map of motorcade route
Two-part newspaper clipping from the Dallas Times Herald on November 21, 1963. The clipping includes two articles about President Kennedy's visit to Dallas the following day titled "JFK Foray into Texas Under Way" and "Kennedy to Ride in Own Limousine." Both articles begin on the front page of the paper and continue onto a smaller clipping from another page. The front page also includes a map of the motorcade route for November 22, 1963.
Dallas Times Herald newspaper clipping with map of motorcade route
11/21/1963
Newsprint
22 3/4 x 9 in. (57.8 x 22.9 cm)
George Reid Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1997.056.0104
Both local newspapers, the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News, printed stories that detailed the full Dallas motorcade route on Tuesday, November 19, 1963. The afternoon before the assassination, Thursday, November 21, the Times Herald printed this large map on their front page. An almost identical, though slightly smaller map published the next morning by The Dallas Morning News generated a great deal of research interest and controversy following the assassination. Some conspiracy researchers, believing that the motorcade route was changed by high-ranking officials at the last minute in order to facilitate the assassination in Dealey Plaza, point to the Morning News map from November 22 as evidence since that map incorrectly showed the parade route going straight down Main Street as opposed to making the turns from Main to Houston and then Houston to Elm. The myth that the route was changed at the last minute is easily debunked by both the Dallas Times Herald map (seen here) from the day before as well as the November 19th stories in both papers. Additionally, a concrete divider separating Main Street from Elm Street would have made it physically impossible for the motorcade to access Stemmons Freeway directly from Main Street. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Dallas Times Herald newspaper clipping with map of motorcade route
Two-part newspaper clipping from the Dallas Times Herald on November 21, 1963. The clipping includes two articles about President Kennedy's visit to Dallas the following day titled "JFK Foray into Texas Under Way" and "Kennedy to Ride in Own Limousine." Both articles begin on the front page of the paper and continue onto a smaller clipping from another page. The front page also includes a map of the motorcade route for November 22, 1963.
Dallas Times Herald newspaper clipping with map of motorcade route
11/21/1963
Trip to Texas
Newspapers
Motorcade
Limousine
Kennedy, John F.
Dallas Times Herald
Dallas
Newsprint
22 3/4 x 9 in. (57.8 x 22.9 cm)
George Reid Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1997.056.0104
Both local newspapers, the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News, printed stories that detailed the full Dallas motorcade route on Tuesday, November 19, 1963. The afternoon before the assassination, Thursday, November 21, the Times Herald printed this large map on their front page. An almost identical, though slightly smaller map published the next morning by The Dallas Morning News generated a great deal of research interest and controversy following the assassination. Some conspiracy researchers, believing that the motorcade route was changed by high-ranking officials at the last minute in order to facilitate the assassination in Dealey Plaza, point to the Morning News map from November 22 as evidence since that map incorrectly showed the parade route going straight down Main Street as opposed to making the turns from Main to Houston and then Houston to Elm. The myth that the route was changed at the last minute is easily debunked by both the Dallas Times Herald map (seen here) from the day before as well as the November 19th stories in both papers. Additionally, a concrete divider separating Main Street from Elm Street would have made it physically impossible for the motorcade to access Stemmons Freeway directly from Main Street. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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