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243. NAZI Echo in Dealey Plaza

For some reason, President Kennedy's motorcade turned from Main Street on to Elm Street, a turn of around 120-degrees that made the President's car slow down and giving his assassins an ideal position for ambush. It also changed the course of the motorcade to pass directly in front of Lee Harvey Oswald's last place of employment, the Texas School Book Depository.



This has a major parallel in history that seldom, if ever, gets mentioned: the assassination by ambush in 1942 of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague and a principal architect of The Holocaust.



A 120-degree turn in the road slowed down Heydrich's car, giving his assassins an ideal position for ambush.



Similar circumstances benefited the assassins of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in 1914:

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914

EXCERPT...

The cars sped to the Town Hall and the rest of the conspirators did not interfere with them. After the reception in the Town Hall General Potiorek, the Austrian Commander, pleaded with Francis Ferdinand to leave the city, as it was seething with rebellion. The Archduke was persuaded to drive the shortest way out of the city and to go quickly.

The road to the maneuvers was shaped like the letter V, making a sharp turn at the bridge over the River Nilgacka [Miljacka]. Francis Ferdinand's car could go fast enough until it reached this spot but here it was forced to slow down for the turn. Here Princip had taken his stand.

As the car came abreast he stepped forward from the curb, drew his automatic pistol from his coat and fired two shots. The first struck the wife of the Archduke, the Archduchess Sofia, in the abdomen. She was an expectant mother. She died instantly.

The second bullet struck the Archduke close to the heart.

He uttered only one word, 'Sofia' -- a call to his stricken wife. Then his head fell back and he collapsed. He died almost instantly.

CONTINUED...

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/duke.htm

Oliver Stone raised this aspect in his film, "JFK" when Jim Garrison, portrayed by Kevin Kostner, says, "This was a military-style ambush from start to finish... a coup d'etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings."

It takes a platoon leader to see these things. A hairpin turn is an ideal spot for an ambush. The tactic works for removing a royal, a tyrant or a president.

Another parallel: The victims in the three cases rode in open cars in hostile country.



Almost forgot to mention: Thanks to DU, this remarkable parallels between the assassination of President Kennedy and those of Archduke Ferdinand and the NAZI Heydrich have almost been lost to history. I learned about this in researching a reply to a post on DU a year or so ago.

PS: Thank you for the heads-up on the "missed" shot, CliffordDU. Thanks also for grokking what's still at stake, even though almost 50 years ahve passed.