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JFK GeoTour
#12 Love Field
3210 Love Field Dr, Dallas, TX 75235

Love Field serves as the beginning and the sad end to JFK’s “Day in Dallas”. Just a few short hours after landing in Dallas, Kennedy returned to Love Field in the back of a hearse. His casket was lifted up into Air Force One, as his newly widowed bride stood by to witness the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson aboard the aircraft. This was the only time a U.S. President took the oath of office in the state of Texas. During the proceedings Jackie appeared to be in a state of shock. As new President, LBJ placed a call onboard the aircraft to John F. Kennedy’s mother, Rose Kennedy, and delivered the news. When the plane reached Washington, D.C., Jackie was met by Robert Kennedy, still wearing her pink dress and hose, both extensively covered in her husband’s blood. Leaving for the Texas trip, she had originally planned to celebrate her children’s birthdays. John, Jr. and Caroline were having their 3rd and 6th birthdays over the next 4 days. Instead, Jackie Kennedy spent much of that time planning for a funeral and planning burial arrangements.

If you've ever traveled through Oklahoma and Texas, you've probably seen the billboards touting Robertson's ham sandwiches and smoked meats. Robertson's has been in business since 1946, when V.B. "Tup" Robertson opened his first store in downtown Marietta, Oklahoma. This geocache was a fun one, found inside an old fire hydrant. 🐖

In Thackerville, Oklahoma at the WinStar World Casino. It is the largest casino in the United States in floor space. WinStar has over 8,600 electronic games, a 55-table poker room, 100 total table games including craps and roulette, Racer's off-track betting, and multiple high limit rooms. The outside is different exteriors of World sites. This picture is of Big Ben in London, England. 🎰

Memorial dedicated to the 103rd Infantry Division of World War II located at the Texas travel and information
center on I-35 in Gainesville, Texas. 🇺🇸

JFK GeoTour
#11 Texas Theatre
231 Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208

Leaving the scene of the crime after shorting Officer Tippit, Oswald walked briskly towards West Jefferson Boulevard. On W. Jefferson, he heard the wail of police sirens and ducked into the entry alcove of Hardy’s shoe store pretending to look at the window display of sneakers. This allowed him to turn his back to the street and get off the sidewalk to try and avoid detection. The police sirens traveled westward on W. Jefferson and abruptly turned back eastward on Zang, less than a block before reaching Oswald’s location at 213 W. Jefferson.

As soon as the police sirens retreated, Oswald returned to the sidewalk and continued westward towards the Texas Theater. His secretive behavior triggered the suspicion of the 18-year-old shoe store manager, Johnny Calvin Brewer. Brewer followed him heading west down the sidewalk and into the theater. Before entering the theater, he had the ticket girl call the police to notify them of this suspicious fellow. Upon entering the theater, Brewer got the concession man to cover the front exit while he went to the back exit. He could see that no one had recently left the theater through the rear exit, but with the lights down low for the movie, he could not find the man he was looking for in the crowd. When Brewer started to open the back door, he was greeted by an anxious police presence. He quickly explained the situation to the officers and they entered through the back of the theater and raised the house lights.

With the lights up, Brewer quickly pointed out Oswald near the back row, and the police quickly advanced toward him. Oswald responded by sucker-punching the first officer to reach him, then Oswald drew his handgun that he had just used to kill Officer Tippit. The gun was wrestled out of his hand and a fight ensued as the officers handcuffed him and marched him out the front of the theater. Brewer, along with several officers and a few members of the press were present in the theater to witness his apprehension. Oswald was arrested for the murder of Officer Tippit, but the connection could not initially be made to President Kennedy. The connection was soon made and charges for the Kennedy assassination were filed later that night.

Oswald was taken into police department custody in a holding cell in the Municipal Building at the corner of Main, Harwood, and Commerce Streets. At 2:25 that afternoon, Oswald was interrogated in the Office of Police Captain Will Fritz.