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A change in the motorcade route

Did conspirators alter the President's motorcade route?

Oliver Stone's JFK makes the claim that conspiratorial forces made a change in the President's Dallas motorcade route in order to get a better shot at him.

LOU [IVON] (VOICE OVER) Main Street's over there -- the original parade route on the way to the Trade Mart. Too far, right? Impossible shot.

Jim [Garrison] swings the scope up to confront Main Street. Another car is in his sight. Too far.

LOU (V.O.) (CONT'D) So they changed the route to bring it this way.⁽¹⁾

First of all, had the President's limousine traveled down Main Street instead of Elm, it would have placed the car a distance of a few yards further away from the Texas School Book Depository.

"Impossible shot"? Oliver Stone, the great seeker of truth, is simply making this up.

That's not the only problem, though. There never was any change in the motorcade route.

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1. Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film (New York: Applause, 1992), p. 128. All quotations are from the shooting script and may vary slightly from the finished motion picture.

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