and a wonderful good morning to you all hi guys Eric here from nomadic fanatic coming
to you from Dallas downtown Dallas I've got my uh smart car parked in a lot so that I
can explore today now we are gonna talk about this famous Square here daily Plaza
and what happened here on that fateful day in 1963. thanks for joining me guys [Music]
thank you
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yeah guys we are going to talk about sadly one of our nation's kind of controversial but also uh sad
of a President John F Kennedy and that happened sadly here it gives Dallas kind of a a bad rap but
this Plaza is where it happened and this Memorial Park here has been left exactly as it kind of was
back in the day to remember the president and actually let's start we'll start so on November
22nd 1963 John F Kennedy his motorcade was driving down this road exactly right here trying to boost
his chances of getting reelected right and if you look right down there where that red car
just drove over we're gonna get closer there is a x in the middle of the road you've all heard of
the sixth floor shooter all right here's where it was watch my finger one two three four five
six that square window right there not the top floor but the square one on the bottom right
there that is now a museum for John F Kennedy now I'm just sharing a little bit of history
with you I am not glorifying anything uh this is all preserved like this so that we can remember
president of the United States however they have gone so far in Dallas as I mentioned this to put
an x marks the spot in the middle of the road so there's where it happened
up there this Explorer up there supposedly where it happens but again you've probably heard of the
second gunman on the grassy knoll I give you the grassy knoll back here where conspiracy theorists
have said that there was another shooter that also shot one of those three fatal shots that
was over there and it looks like they also have another Memorial over there so we'll cross the
street in the crosswalk and go check that out too yeah we crossed the road now I'm going to come out
here and just show you it's just a painted on X in the middle of the road that crazy
what a weird way to preserve such an event and again here is the grassy knoll up here
similar to other tragedies in this country oftentimes what they like to do is keep things as
original as possible or create an open space and I think that's what they've done is creating an open
space here what do we got here a quote oh it's a quote by John F Kennedy we in this country in this
generation are by Destiny rather than Choice the watching on the walls of world Freedom we
ask therefore that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility and that we may exercise our
strength and wisdom with restraint and that we may achieve in our time of all this time the ancient
vision of peace on Earth Good Will towards men as I understand it a few blocks away there is one
more Memorial to JFK so we're gonna go try to find that too it's a little warm here in Dallas today
and kind of muggy a lot of construction going on a lot of cleaning I'm interested in that weird
object over there but we'll see so that museum that's up there in the sixth floor that they made
to dedicate to the president my buddy Rafael went up there uh they're closed on Monday and Tuesday
so we can't go up there today but the museum shows some pictures like here's a sniper gun
that was possibly used these are all replicas of course a replica hat that Lee Harvey Oswald wore
when he made that fatal shot from the sixth floor uh type of camera that was used in in the area
and some more pictures of what the view actually looks like from that room which is really eerie
looking down on the street like that so too bad we couldn't get into this Museum to see these
pictures but thank you Rafael for sharing these with me and my viewers and you see this beautiful
castle looking structure right there beautiful right I guess that was a courthouse back in the
day and some history uh inside those doors was the first jury that sat women here in Dallas County so
it's a historical marker for women's rights and jury a strange site here in the middle of town
for sure yeah it's a log cabin the log cabin in the middle of the city it is presented uh
for the Log Cabin pioneers of Dallas County most colonists first settled in this Three Forks area
of the Trinity River as members of the Peters Colony after 1841 immigrants from such State as
Arkansas Illinois Kentucky Missouri and Tennessee brought with them a tradition of building log
shelters then over here on the far side of the cabin there's a Texas Highway Department dated
1936 here which talks about Dallas County the unincorporated town of Dallas was designated as
a post office by the Republic of Texas in 1843. okay I found the official Dallas John F Kennedy
Memorial Plaza here and uh I read some of this you don't need to read any of this the architect says
uh that it's a place for quiet Refuge an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from
the city around but near the sky and Earth that's Philip Johnson and this was erected in
1970. it was supposed to be a lot cooler than this these walls were supposed to be marble
and I guess that would have made the difference according to the architect uh instead Dallas
cheaped out and did all Concrete in here and um it's interesting it's definitely hollowed out
for a meaning for a purpose but that purpose is almost lost in the confusion mind you this was
built 53 years ago so keeping that in mind maybe Architects creative juices weren't as good as they
are today now we have real art you know give me a break uh but yeah I wonder if the architect
is still around we can get him to come in and do a 53-year makeover of it because uh it's a it's
a weird it's a weird site guys all right we need to stay in the area because I purchased an online
ticket for something that I showed you earlier in this video so that that'll be later we've got some
time to kill let's go grab some lunch so look this Dallas Cruise tour has the horns mounted on the
front this is what I want for tater tot I think that came out really well because of that Texas
flare all right we got the historic west end with the neon lights going across we've got this old
building here which I can't read all the lettering there on the wall but it's been around for a while
no shortage of interesting places to eat here we've got record Grill not a whole lot of cool
things about downtown areas but because of the tall buildings and all the concrete you
aid and there's a breeze blowing through the alleys feels really good
this is what the public transportation looks like here in Dallas they got the dart d-a-r-t
not the BART of San Francisco but the darts
the green line
and they're rolling down old brick roads here too
all right we're still on record Street turning on to Corbin there we go there we go I saw this one
on Google how about Ellen's established 2012 for breakfast lunch I love the lights like
the movie theater light more keys that go around and breakfast all day it's brunch clock somewhere
um yeah it's a nice little Hole in the Wall Restaurant air conditioning's working I got
a fancy black coffee there orange juice in the water and a food order in whoa look how good this
breakfast looks guys got scrambled eggs I got hash browns under there bacon I just hit the jackpot
see if these potato hash browns check out [Music] um
what a score of a good meal breakfast for lunch I love it great spot let's head off to our next
destination all right we finally found the entrance I had to walk all the way around
this thing not an easy one to get to but there she stands clouds have rolled back in let's go to the
top they really don't make this easy you have to buy your tickets online and we're here but I don't
know where to go so we are standing underneath the tower it goes up apparently but I haven't
put a life in me everything around here just says Hyatt Hotel
and there's nobody here it's completely empty on all sides so I'm gonna have to go ask Hotel
I check in to go to the top because I'm pretty confused right now all right somebody at the
bar told me that we need to go downstairs that you'll notice there's nothing written here about
going downstairs but glad I asked I never would have figured it out going down the Elvis later
there we go it's under the Hyatt now we've seen Reunion Tower Crown block we want the
Geo deck this way Reunion Tower neon nice I like that I guess they do some fireworks shows on it
for certain events that almost looks like spaceship earth type of lights on the top
I don't know if it's like that every single night but yeah Dallas Dallas
all right now that we're here and checked in we're gonna wait here for the elevator
and uh we're the only ones in here I might get this all to myself awesome all right heading in
we're going up pretty fast actually yes sir a little under about four miles per hour is that
about a rate a little under four miles per hour right about seven feet per second oh wait look
at how towards our cliff and an interchange of 35 East 10 minutes freeway and uh Interstate 30. okay
what a complicated freeway system jeez
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50 stories wow that was 50. well I'm really geodeck today thank you man is the ambassador
up here hope you have a great time thank you so much have a good day
wow wow wow this is crazy y'all oh my gosh
let's go outside and check it out
oh my gosh look at Dallas whoa what an incredible view of a big city
I wow [Music] it's awfully windy up here too so thank
goodness for this good microphone that I brought
really windy
but thankfully this one doesn't rotate like the Space Needle in Seattle so
that elevator ride enough of 50 some stories was rough for me
it's neat for sure but it makes the world look so complicated and overwhelming oh well
as if it's there's like food or drinks or something but there's
nowhere to grab a drink how about a magnet let's go check out the gift store in here
let's see I see some magnets that say Dallas on it okay yeah so again nothing that says Reunion Tower
Dallas I don't know I was unpressed for 20 bucks to get up here then there's no
food or drinks no magnets and the gift store that probably would have sold magnets for JFK
was closed on Tuesdays as well a lot of stuff is closed on Tuesdays in Dallas good to know
anyway guess I'm done up here we need to get back in the car and travel nearly two hours to go meet
up with the kitties where the RV is parked guys go find Tater Tot if you missed my last video I
left the RV like two hours away with the kitties in there with bubbles of food and everything to
explore Fort Worth and we did the Stockyards had a lot of fun then decided to stay in a
motel and not Trek back during rush hour Dallas Fort Worth traffic and it was one of the worst
motels I've ever stayed at in my life check that one out I will link it at the end in the cards but
um yeah just a just a long perilous drive back and I can't wait to relax and see those kitties
do you remember meopy it's been so long do you remember me I'm your dad
you and your dad did you forget who I am I'm the man you're that guy who fills my bowl and stuff
yeah that's I'm that's I'm the guy mystery buddy where's Terror dad I was the boss while you were
gone I I kept OPI and lying and everything you did I'm good okay missed you Miss Mickey
yeah so I made it back to the RV now guys and uh just want to let you know I have been battling
YouTube on this video Behind the Scenes they are demonetizing this video no matter what and I've
tried to edit it in a few different ways even taking out a certain word that they just do not
like even though it's it's a fact it's a part of History um YouTube is really picky when it comes
to uh certain trigger words and uh because of my talking about John F Kennedy and his demise
YouTube no matter what has decided that I cannot make any money on any of this video Even though
it's really frustrating um I thought about just that anyway don't know what else to do
for some reason I don't get to make a cent on this video Even though I put in the same
amount of effort that I've done in all my other videos so if you wouldn't mind doing me a favor
today guys will you go watch one of my other videos even my last video if you missed that
one or any other just go through my my playlist do me a favor do me a solid hit play and watch
one of my other videos it'll really help me out in the meantime I am gonna pack it up and
uh I'm gonna say goodbye to Texas for now y'all have a good one thanks for watching bye foreign
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