i'm back...

sorry 'bout that. i had just turned on the lamp on my last post and the bulb went out...so i had to truck upstairs to get another. and when i got back with it, the above light in the ceiling had gone out. strange. it's gotta be that full moon.

tonight, susie left work at around 7PM and thought she saw lois' car still in the parking garage. when she got home, she called lois and asked if everything was okay. lois wondered why susie thought something was wrong because she left work at around 5PM and had been home since then.

apparently, there's another late model maroon Honda Civic LX...with similar plates that is often parked in their parking garage. lois even said that she mistakenly tries the wrong car on occasion. i wonder if it's the same for the other owner. perhaps, this car only appears during full moons - that would make more sense ;)

speaking of weirdness, last night, we watched Frontline. it might have been a repeat because the episode was "Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?" it probably aired last november, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination.

anyway, it was a bit ironic to turn the tube on to this show because we were just in Dallas last weekend to visit lois' sister, Pauline (see the 3/19 post). and we had visited the Book Depository building that Oswald had done his deed in. talk about creepy. all the documenting photos and videos made for a really thought provoking sunday.

although i am familiar with the events that transpired, i had never given it much thought since JFK was assassinated almost seven years before i was born. sure...the rifle...the grassy knoll...Jack Ruby...but that's it. i didn't know all the details and the scientific experiments that had been carried out by the Warren Commission. and to see everything, was pretty incredible.

IMHO, i believe that Oswald was a gunman and probably fired the first three shots. however, i don't think he acted alone. if you look at the frame-by-frame evidence of Abraham Zapruder's amateur video, it's totally evident that another shot was fired from the right of the motorcade, as JFK's scalp is literally torn off and he slumps to his left, into Jackie. man, that must've haunted her 'til the day she went...

if Oswald was the only one to fire the shots, there is NO way he could have inflicted the fourth, since he was shooting from BEHIND the limo. i kinda wonder if there is a conspiracy theory and he was the scapegoat. from the subsequent interviews after the shooting, he was too calm and collected...like he was going to be magically exonerated; as if someone had promised him immunity or something.

oh yeah, i thought i'd mention a funny observation that we made. right before we walked into the museum, lois and i noticed two tall, cowboy hatted, overall wearin', bumpkin-looking types that had crossed the street in the direction of the museum. it seemed that they were the classic bumpkins who had come from a more 'rural' area of the state or a surrounding state for a visit to the 'big city.' in fact, the only thing that might've been missing was a piece of straw jutting out of the side of their mouths.

on the sixth floor, we were milling around the exhibit when i caught a glimpse of the bumpkins again. we had crossed paths once more near the vocal timeline when i heard one of 'em talk to another...in German!!! these two guys were German tourists who either believe that they'd fit in perfectly by dressing in their best Village People cowhand garb or their Texas travel literature back home is seriously out of date! i truly had to stifle a laugh at myself because of my preconceived notions of these visitors. heh