Re Dallas: Why do the news commentators keep referencing the JFK assassination?

[Laffy Kat]

The only thing these events have in common is the city.

[MohRokTah]

1. This all went down close to Dealey Plaza. eom

[villager]

2. And one or more snipers. nt

[JenniferJuniper]

3. Dealey Plaza, Parkland Hospital

For people not from the area, these locations will forever be linked to that murder.

[kiva]

12. Yup, if you're old enough to remember JFK,

those names resonate.

[840high]

15. I'm old enough. We were

at Ft. Dix that day.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. You just said it...

Because it's Dallas.

If there's another terrorist attack, or one thwarted in NYC, they'll probably reference 9/11.

If there's riots in LA, they'll probably reference the Rodney King riots of '92.

This brings back images of JFK because it's snipers in Dallas. Search sniper, Dallas, and you'll get nothing but JFK stories.

Well until tonight.

[craigmatic]

5. no there are several key words in common like sniper, dallas, and Parkland Hospital. Not to mention

the fact that they don't know how many shooters are involved or who is behind it.

[Stallion]

11. Elevated Snipers

nm

[LarryNM]

18. +1,000 n/t

[oswaldactedalone]

6. Amazing coincidence that these devastating incidents

happened within a few blocks of each other. If you weren't alive during the Kennedy assassination you don't understand the significance of the events which occurred in Dallas over that weekend.

[Laffy Kat]

10. I was born in '57. I absolutely remember the JFK assassination.

A coincidence by city only. I just think they are playing these events off each other way too much. There's no other context for it, really. OK, obviously it's just me. Never mind.

[Stallion]

14. My Dad Was Democratic County Precincts Chairman and On the Dais at the Apparel Mart

where Kennedy was supposed to speak.

Later that nite he decided to drive down to review the scene of the crime. Imagine my twin brother and I at 5 years old trying to process the death of a beloved President, a sniper and then driving at nite to something called the "triple underpass". My twin and I hid on the floor board of the back seat. we were traumatized-one of my earliest memories

[Laffy Kat]

16. How horrible for you & your brother.

I was traumatized by it and I was just watching coverage on the television. I can also remember seeing the live feed of Ruby shooting Oswald and my mom telling me I was watching history. You were much closer.

[roamer65]

7. Dallas will always be associated with the assassination...

of our beloved President Kennedy.

I am not surprised it is being brought up.

[Stallion]

8. Parade Actually Started at Big Red Courthouse Which is Caty-Corner from Texas School Book Depository

its the red brick old building with a clock tower that can be seen as Kennedy takes a left hand turn into Triple Under-pass. Shooting actually occurred as Parade headed about 3 blocks east. The Shooting occurred generally in an open area near the tall skyscraper

[gopiscrap]

17. we were just there 2 months ago

[Joe the Revelator]

9. Snipers, deleay plaza, ect ect ect

[Jane Austin]

13. Because, the JFK assassination was a huge

national trauma. It killed something in all of us and I don't think the country has ever been the same.

[senseandsensibility]

21. Yes

I have nothing to add.

[struggle4progress]

19. It's only 2 or 3 blocks from Dealey Plaza -- and if local reporters

are mentioning JFK, some of them might have grown up in the era when the assassination was still a completely taboo subject in polite Dallas society

[arely staircase]

20. Well until this that kinda was the biggest thing that ever happened there.

Deley Plaza looks almost exactly like it did on 63. There is an x painted in the street right where Kennedy's head exploded in the Zapruder film. I actually once found myself driving a convertable right through there. Kind of a weird feeling.