Tried watching it earlier today, but their site had crashed....

I swear, JFK and Tupac are in a basement somewhere, laughing their asses off and rolling around in the big dough they make putting out new videos every year.

Kudos to the son-in-law for getting this footage to the country, finally. This kind of stuff shouldn't be kept by one person.

Interesting. In related (old) news, if you haven't seen the stabilized Zapruder film, it is quite amazing.

Heh. I worked for ~2.5 years in the old school book depository building for the county, on the third floor, mind you. That was my first adult™ job after college. I'm currently updating my resume to try to find the second one.

It's an interesting building, and brings tourists out the gourd, but it quickly became the site of my cubicle and not the site of the assassination after about six months. The 39th anniversary, which made MeFi. The 40th was a media fucking circus.

Some day I'll write about my time spent there, either publicly or privately, but it's a building that holds a lot of emotion to me in spite of JFK getting shot there.

Plus, I first met matteo on Houston St. right outside the museum gift shop!

Grr..spent too much time making sure I did the (TM) correctly and didn't edit well enough.

Should've said " the 39th anny, which made MeFi was crazy enough."

In related news -- $3 million bid for Oswald's reputed sniper's perch falls through.

I seriously love ufez

just for the record

I was a junior in high school at the time of the 30th anniversary. My debate class took up the topic (specifically, the lone gunman vs. multiple assasins theories) as our big mid-term debate. As part of our research, my dad took me and a friend to Dealey Plaza and the School Book Depository museum. (We talked about it as a "fact-finding mission", but it was really more of a morbidly cool sight-seeing trip.)

I remember standing on the grassy knoll and baffling over the fact that the wooden fence (the same one seen in the Zapruder film) was still intact. I also remember getting choked up while viewing one of the museum's video exhibits, a sort of chronological montage of news clips and documentary footage which covered all the events of that day, and the following days all the way up through the funeral.

My most lasting impression is of how much smaller and compact everything was in person than it appears from the footage. Everything is cozy and kind of all crammed together, so you can really see why the killer(s?) chose that spot -- it's the perfect place for an assassination, really.

Thanks for the link.