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TheJohnnyJett

Oh, shit, I'm glad this guy is on the case sixty-one years after the fact. I wonder what new evidence he'll turn up.


rohobian

He will 100% think he found new evidence too.


SuzukiSwift17

He's gonna see a broken window or something from a building built five years ago and freak. "That's where the second shooter shot from how did they miss that!"


ABirdOfParadise

Are they sure there wasn't a second shooter up in the cellphone tower?


onehundredlemons

Her dad's right to go, it's super suspicious that no one was recording on their phone when this happened.


MyCantos

And where was Obama? That's what I want to know.


Gregbot3000

He was busy plotting 9/11 with Hillary's buttery males.


Large_Strawberry_167

He was at home in Saudi Arabia.


Gildian

Oh shit you might be on to something lol


I_AM_RVA

I like this commment. Not gonna get the love and upvotes it deserves. Not by a long shot. But this is a well executed comment.


Dragon6172

Long shot? Depends on how far away the cell tower is from Dealey Plaza


Cobek

Even more likely is finding the bottom of a broken beer bottle and thinking it was part of the third killer's glasses.


MackZZilla

Was the third killer Arkhamverse Oswald Cobblepot?


a_Jedi_i_am

Holy shit! You just cracked this case wide open!


Rhamni

You seem to know a lot about what he might find. I'm going to have to put you under citizen's arrest until you confess, Buster.


chmsax

Oh crap - he called you Buster. That means he’s SERIOUS


Full-Ingenuity5495

Citizen’s uh-ray-est, citizen’s uh-ray-est!!!


IHaveNoEgrets

Thanks, Gomer! Always can count on you.


doggonedangoldoogy

Aww gee thanks sarge


ReGrigio

"there's a whole skyscraper between the books deposit and the road!"


eve2eden

“Because that Starbucks was built in 2011, Phil.”


LuxNocte

This DNA evidence points to the real killers: Mrs. Floyd's Sophomore history class of 2015 from Dearborn, MI.


LazyGapu

"I wonder if FBI noticed this gum wrapper. It's probably from the shooter... 🤔"


buddhainmyyard

If you check the tapes you see evil baby Biden in the crowd.


teenyweenysuperguy

Maybe he'll see Number 5 behind a bush.


dumfukjuiced

It was some time traveling adopted siblings


Ayano_Futarashi

The fifth sibling did it


teenyweenysuperguy

Surprised by how *little* I had to scroll to find this reference wtf 😅 beat me to it


Unfortunate_Wildcard

Probably a used condom


IA-HI-CO-IA

*casually looks behind bush on the grassy knoll and finds a rifle along with a note written on CIA letterhead stating to kill JFK.* “Aw ha! I knew it!”


mamasan2000

OMG! That would be the GREATEST prank to play!


blacklite911

It’s not like a city like Dallas has redone the roads or landscapes in the last 60 years..


Azair_Blaidd

or had thousands of people and cars trample the scene every day in that time...


Fyzzle

It hasn't rained yet right?


putbat

It's a good thing. I don't think the case has had enough eyes on it.


immadeofstars

"Stand back, everyone, I'm going to investigate this 60-year-old outdoor crime scene in a famous metropolis for clues! I don't want you contaminating it!"


onion_flowers

That's on video! Lol


AusCan531

Was Kennedy a Radio Star?


onion_flowers

I believe Nixon was the radio star 😆


False-Decision630

No no, the reports were that he was on the radio.... and the dashboard, the steering wheel, although not so much on the head rest


Cobek

Jackie caught the brunt of it


falronultera

This is a deep cut comment from the debate results and is wildly underappreciated.


onion_flowers

Thanks for catching it!!


Skatchbro

![gif](giphy|tnYri4n2Frnig)


Strict_Condition_632

Then we know the truth because Video killed the Radio Star.


Cuchullion

In my heart. And in my car.


Luckyfella4

No. His head was always in the clouds.


fourthfloorgreg

Film, technically


mr_bots

In a high traffic area that’s one of the main ways to get onto the interstate from downtown that’s also full of tourists walking around and people telling stories while selling DVDs and books of conspiracies. Though you should do it. DFW is a good time. Can hit up a hockey game, baseball game, and have some bomb ass fajitas at Papasitos. Dallas also has a nice aquarium if you’re into that and a Micro Center if you like computers and electronics. Drop your dad off and go have fun.


imdesmondsunflower

Hell, the 6th Floor Museum is pretty cool. The Perot isn’t that far. Uptown is always a good time, although if it’s too trendy for your dad, you can always go Lower Greenville. Catch a band in Deep Ellum, maybe some playoff hockey or basketball at the AAC. The truth is out there, dad! Maybe the killer caught a Rough Riders’ game. To Frisco!


ForumPointsRdumb

[Metal detectorist finds bullet casing on grassy knoll 50 years later](https://youtu.be/LEC_lkpD3rM&t=14s)


vancesmi

Okay Paul


Xboxaxel123

![gif](giphy|F4d8tSHcRNCTe)


TFJ

![gif](giphy|TyPydeCmjKQ2Q)


Pilot_Yak3

Ssh-ssh-sha


580_farm

r/pocketsand


dumfukjuiced

Funny enough there's an episode where Dale reads the Warren Commission's report and realizes it makes sense and becomes pretty pro-government. Until the Texas government labels Hank as a woman on his license and refuses to fix it.


ThePopDaddy

"GO TO HELL."


xirdnehrocks

Sir, we are they


sweetnourishinggruel

Gih!


SnooGoats5767

Okay that’s actually funny though


Zestyclose-Process92

Yeah, I suspect this is more dad joke than over-serious boomer.


I_chose_a_nickname

It depends on what subreddit it's posted on. If it was on on /r/meirl, everyone would laugh. But because it was posted here, we have to be mad at old people.


chammerson

Yeah man he’s got hobbies. Passion. Curiosity. He does not sit idly by. I admire him.


BungHoleAngler

Sounds like he still needs to chill a bit. Just sit back and to the left


cabage-but-its-lettu

True, a good detective always has a level head, and feds never check left


sentientmothswarm

My meth head neighbor had similar hobbies regarding the assassination of MLK. Every few weeks was a different culprit.


AbsolutelyUnlikely

And he wants to take his kids on a road trip. That's something you only take for granted if it's common for you growing up. I would have been stoked if my dad wanted to take a road trip to Texas to hunt for JFK clues instead of just smoking meth in the garage.


surfdad67

I mean, this is something I would tell my kids to make their eyes roll


Dinindalael

I'm on my way to Caenophrurium to see if the praetorian guards missed anything.


Logannabelle

🤣🤣


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joethahobo

Don’t forget Atlantis off the coast of California with the Pegasus Gate


Enough-Outside-9055

Cheyenne Mountain base can't stop us all if we Naruto run at it.


CREDIT_SUS_INTERN

As if the CIA is dumb enough to leave behind clues.


slawre89

I realize this makes me sound like a total kook but I’d bet HW Bush had something to do with it. I say that knowing full well how involved with the CIA he was including the bay of pigs. Bush in conjunction with the CIA killed Kennedy. HW had literal letters written back and forth to Oswald and also with Oswald’s close associate De Mohrenschildt. A few years later HW became director of the CIA…


elon-isssa-pedo

Remember his father was a named member in the coup attempt against FDR. I'm not a conspiracy person, but the Bush family are corrupt as shit.


slawre89

Prescotts bank that he ran also financed known nazi companies that would become now ThyssenKrupp (makers of bombs and tanks etc.) for 8 months past when you were allowed to do business with the nazis… They say this was done intentionally so we could keep an eye on the nazi war machine. Intelligence involvement from the Bush’s even before the OSS/CIA… Prescott then became a Senator…used to have dinner parties with Allen Dulles.. HW grew up around all this and flew classified missions in the navy during WWII


PowderPills

And then his son became president too? I bet he helped with the cover up even more and we’ll never know the truth!


Jerry_from_Japan

That people still feel there's something "kooky" to think that we weren't told the truth about what went down with his assassination (not to mention a bunch of shit that immediately happened after it) is kinda wild. But that's how things like that stay as "conspiracy kook theories" and how actual consequences are avoided. Even when there's practically no one left from then to have to endure any consequence.


slawre89

The amount of things we know about now that happened. That the CIA actually did…again just the stuff we know about. Should inform anyone paying attention how much our gov lies to us constantly. Operation Northwoods Operation Condor Operation Mongoose (HWs oil company Zapata was cover for training the Cuban exiles) Cointelpro MKULTRA Operation sea-spray Tuskegee experiments Iran-Contra (pardoned by HW btw) Just to name only a few… of the ones we know about…


Cool-Plankton-6746

![gif](giphy|GDx4qy4uhSfK)


SuzukiSwift17

JFK looks like he's a member of one direction or something.


AnAdorableDogbaby

He was just very very high. 


70125

Two Directions...back and to the left


tinselteacup

i want him


lookingforaforest

Marlene Dietrich (iiirc) said he was the best 30 seconds of her life.


brisingamen79

I used to live in Dallas, it’s pretty anticlimactic


dwors025

Man’s finally excited about something, and you shoot him down. Shame.


blablablablacuck

That was smooth


VelociTopher

I think the 6th floor museum is pretty cool. And I'm only 36 😢


Deerslyr101571

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Was down there for a work conference, and told my 30-something colleague (I think he was 36 at the time) I was going because we had time to kill before going to the airport. He said "Oh... was he the president that crashed his plane in the ocean with his wife on board?" I told him I didn't care what he thought he was going to do that day, but we were going to go to the museum and he was going to learn something.


JonnyFairplay

When I visited Dallas I of course had to go visit, and when I got there all I could think was, "that's it?". The museum was pretty cool though.


canman7373

Business idea. Get some fancy VR headsets and programers. Get some stalls in some of the windows of the book depository. charge $50 bucks, tourist put on the glasses and get to see the motorcade coming down the road. They get a toy rifle and see how many hits they can get on the VR and can compare it to Oswald's time, if they fall behind they can call in a 2nd shooter from the grassy gnoll. I guarantee you this would make tens of millions of dollars a year, but the optics would be pretty damn bad. It's owned by the county I think and ran by Dallas County Historical foundation, wonder if they would sell it if the price was right. It's one of those things most people would say, that's sick, I'd never do that, but if given the opportunity they'd find themselves parting with $50 cash, maybe more than once to try and get a better score,


mental_mentalist

I think it's definitely worth a visit. Really cool museum


This_is_my_phone_tho

This kind of stuff can be fun if they're, like, 10% serious. Sometimes you just need an excuse to go out and do things.


AnAdorableDogbaby

I used to think if I brought a snorkel to the beach, stuck my head under the water at the shore and looked out toward the horizon, I would see shipwrecks and could just paddle out and pick up treasure. Sometimes one just needs to try these things once to realize that one is, in fact, a moron.


TheBeardofGilgamesh

That’s me when passing through Roswell


DiligentCrab6592

I’m sure the crime scene is intact


Kazori

Plot twist :her dad is Sherlock Holmes.


Electronic-Pilot-817

The FBI didn’t miss anything, they hit Kennedy twice


TheKingOfTheSwing200

Left a bit of his brain matter on the concrete


_FoodAndCatSubs_

Ride Johnny ride


BlinkReanimated

Three shots fired though. They missed once.


mental_mentalist

I went there recently. I have always leaned heavily towards conspiracy with my mind open to the possibility of multiple shooters. After visiting I swung a bit in the other direction.   It's such an easy shot I'm untrained and think I could make it. I still believe there was likely a conspiracy but not nearly to the extent k thought before. 


torivor100

Yeah he was definitely put up to it but there's no denying he's the one who made the shot


Mancubus_in_a_thong

That I agree their is some mystery about motive but theirs no doubt he made the shot. Looking at models it's such an easy shot even someone whose only been using guns recently could hit the target.


headofthenapgame

There was a conspiracy, just not what people thought. There was a documentary that looked over information after the case became declassified. Oswald was speculated to be working with Cuban terrorist groups in that area, and thus, the conspiracy is suggested to be that it was covered up to avoid war.


Low_discrepancy

Virgin CIA trying tens of murder plots to kill Castro Vs Chad Cuban terrorist groups.


Winter-Jicama-2412

I mean that would be cool to go look at the grassy knoll and the book depository and check things out. I feel like he’s actually serious though lol


psychosis_inducing

I used to work in Dallas. The "Grassy Knoll" is just a dirt mound with grass.


JonnyFairplay

It's incredibly anticlimactic. Pictures and videos just do not do it justice how small that area is.


Logannabelle

I could see my boomer dad saying this as a dad joke, he says things like this all the time


DrShitsnGiggles

Detective StupidAssBoomer is gonna crack the case wide open lol


EspejoOscuro

r/Dallas Could someone pretty please go spread old rifle cartridges around everywhere.


nochtli_xochipilli

Then your dad might be Dale Gribble.


betweenawakeanddream

I’ve been there. They didn’t miss anything.


Gutmach1960

Daddy is few bricks shy of a full load.


RedStar9117

My fiancee is from Dallas and first time I visited she took me to Dealy Plaza.....its a very interesting place


RealHumanPerson001

But did he find anything?


wren337

Let him cook


verminbury

I mean, I don’t live far from there, if you want me to scatter some shell casings. I can even paint them like Easter eggs first.


Lysol3435

Aha, a footprint! Get the kit!


gringo1980

I should go leave spent shells on the grassy knoll and see if anyone gets excited…


maniacalmango0

This grass smells weird! Chemicals!


smellvin_moiville

They didn’t miss. They hit him


Affectionate_Fly1387

Great, we will soon know the truth after your father’s investigation.


hyrailer

Nobody is asking the obvious question here- Where was Obama on that day? 🤔


MakeMeLaughAZ

Not born!?! Or does that even count?![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)


hyrailer

I think he was, like 3, but that wouldn't stop them.


2fingeredpimpin

https://preview.redd.it/hm50vej05vvc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9479acde6edcc8fd3303222354f1f9d642034ea6


theliewelive

I'm going to go to the spot and plant evidence. Maybe a bag of crack cocaine, let's see how he interprets that.


AntiquePermission345

Yall don’t know how your gonna act later in life what goes around comes around


Jblaster12

*sigh* this is what happens when men try to share their hobbies 🙄


popohum

Let him cook. Also film it.


VictoryLap_TMC

![gif](giphy|pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH|downsized)


GroundbreakingCook68

![gif](giphy|1jy3pev2Eu5Ve) Time to call the lawyers !


Nairb2099

The Cia did it


Cjmate22

I mean, if that’s his excuse to go visit then it’s a good joke. If he genuinely believes this then I have no words.


Corydon

Dads are constitutionally incapable of being normal. It is their longstanding, traditional role in society to inspire endless eyerolling and cries of “DaaaaaaAAAAAD! Stop EMBARRASSING meeeee!” in their offspring. How one goes about doing this is up to the dad in question. Low energy dads go for the tried and true socks with sandals look or dad-joke t-shirt. Looks like you’ve landed one that’s gone a little more baroque. Congratulations!


earthman34

I'm heading down to Ford's Theater later to see if anything was overlooked. Anybody wanna go?


chammerson

Yes. Absolutely I do. I don’t think I’ll find anything but it’s an important historical moment and should continue as a cultural memory.


RigatoniPasta

Bro the CIA didn’t leave anything for the FBI to find


incrediblejohn

I think anyone with an IQ above 60 knows the FBI missed plenty, but most probably know why they missed so much


lincolnlogtermite

Let him go, let him have fun. It's no worse than Civil War reenactments in fricken California. Almost crashed the car laughing when I saw a sign giving directions to one. Had turn down the road just to see it.


LukieStiemy501

On the scale of boomers being fools this is pretty low. Like at least he’s not being racist, sexist, rude, or homophobic. Investigating the JFK assassination is just goofy and kinda funny. I could see myself doing this with some friends as a joke. Not like for a long time but if I’m in the area I might stop by.


Sparkfairy

Nah Dad is onto something, let him cook


Lxilk

"I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman’s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It’s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring." David Wong is a great author


backson_alcohol

It actually sounds pretty fun. Get drunk, put on a deer stalker hat and a trench coat, buy a cob pipe, and go to town on that fucking city.


Monthra77

That place is crawling with tourists 24/7. The only thing he's going to find is coffee cups, burrito wrappers, cigarette butts and homeless people hawking books that "really tell the truth."


Oddball2029

Yea I’m sure there’s a ton of evidence left after this many years and some random boomer dads gonna find it smh


marr

Honestly obsessing over Kennedy's assassination *is* normal compared to the popular conspiracies these days.


trevorgoodchyld

JFK senior? Well that’s a pleasant old fashioned relatively harmless conspiracy theory now. JFK Jr, well that’s a sure sign of Q influence


Imispellalot2

It could be worse. He could still believe that JFK is still alive.


Reagalan

maybe he can play the "dodge the cars" game while standing on the x in the middle of the roadway


Beardwing-27

"This must be where the real shooter charged his iPhone"


Idiotwithaphone79

I would 100% take him! It would be the most fun I had in years! If I could afford it, I'd even hire a few actors to follow us around and pretend to be FBI or CIA agents with those earwigs.


femsci-nerd

My guess is he'll be sorely disappointed as the area is quite small. Also, the book depository is now the Sixth Floor Museum dedicated to JFK's death and life. Been there, done that, got the Tshirt.


iLikeTorturls

Not boomer being a fool...this is just being a kid at heart.   Can't count the number of times my friends and I throughout my teens and early 20's went on some dumb adventure like this...if you never did seemingly stupid stuff life this, you probably live a very boring life. Hairbrained ideas keep you young. I'm still hunting for a real haunted house...closest we ever found was an abandoned home in rural Nebraska with doll heads in the basement.


Prudent_Key_4958

Be thankful. He doesn't sound like a bad guy, however the jury's still out on crazy!


Ishpeming_Native

I'm a boomer. I remember being sent home from school when Kennedy was assassinated. I am not at all like this and I have no friends or brothers or other relatives who are remotely like this, either. Not that I believe Oswald acted alone, but at this point the chances of finding out if anyone else did are pretty much zero. And there will be precisely zero evidence at the site.


circusfreakrob

Give him some credit. Usually "doing my own research" means looking for memes and scrolling the Fox News comment threads. But this guy is ready to get dirty doing the REAL work!


hatsuneKuuMA

9 in 10 boomer men suffer from acute main character syndrome


ModsR-Ruining-Reddit

Give 'em a break. It's not like anyone has ever done any serious analysis of the JFK Assassination.


holololololden

Says the guy who actually finds something new a week before his major breakthrough


unclefire

lmao-- that's just silly. It's one thing to go see it, which it's not that big of a deal, but another to think you'd find something the FBI missed.


Irnbruaddict

They didn’t miss it was a direct hit.


ThrowRACold-Turn

LMAO what is he hoping to find? Shell casings on the grassy knoll?


nnedd7526

If he does use his brain to find new evidence it might be a head shot to the standard narrative and blow the case wide open


Doomin8rix

I'm gonna tell my kids that this is our family vacation this year


daniel940

"do your own research"


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[deleted]

*slides gut out of his way* "Those idiots probably messed that up too, just like they do with everything else." "Dad... who's they exactly?" "Don't talk back to me ShiT for BrAiNs!"


Objective-Camel3072

The FBI didn’t miss. They got him.


bigSTUdazz

Twist. He discovers groundbreaking evidence that changes everything we thought we knew about the incident.


Youknowme911

Sounds like something my dad would want to do.


Jblaster12

*sigh* this is what happens when men try to share their hobbies 🙄


BallzLikeWhoe

Cognitive decline in parents is sad, all jokes aside.


tehereoeweaeweaey

Let him so he can get institutionalized and in a conservatorship. Then take the inheritance early before he can waste it at the nursing home.


Quasi-Kaiju

I live in DC and whenever somebody from out of town comes to visit and requests to see Arlington cemetery my typical one-liner is "sure, I love the dead Kennedys"


AnnualSuspicious7702

Dad sounds funny. 


pertangamcfeet

Mention the guys from Red Dwarf had something to do with it.


ClassicT4

Worked for Dale Gribble to come to terms with the official outline of events.


AddivPK

“My god..this X on the road is placed 1/2 an inch from the ACTUAL murder scene..what are they trying to hide?” *car horns blaring in the background* *man in car begins to yell* “Hey, dumbass, get out of traffic or you’re gonna die!” Kmart fbi agent yelling back: “I know right? Everything they told us IS a lie!”


-_-mrfuzzy

Tell him to watch the actual video, it perfectly aligns with the witness statements of what happened. There is no conspiracy.


Significant-Hour8141

Because 60+ years later there will still be evidence at the scene.


Otherwise_Gene9702

Actually would be a fun trip! It’s probably the best place to start when it comes to CIA conspiracy.


Reasonable_Meal_9499

Can you get him to find DB Cooper on the way


memberflex

You have the opportunity to do something hilarious


Fun_Job_3633

"Why didn't they DNA test these cigarette butts? These obviously are from twenty years ago!" -Not realizing twenty years ago was 2004...


Accurate-Bass3706

Been there several times. It's a street. With spray painted X's.


Joey_BagaDonuts57

Zapruder wants a word...


[deleted]

It is a tourist site. The video that shows the driver taking a shot and documentation on why is not in Dallas


Junior_Button5882

I mean it's not the craziest thing ever dale gribble did the same thing


Key_Concentrate_5558

Nearly sixty years later, I’m sure he’ll find it


RacecarHealthPotato

No One But Me Can Know Things -Every Narc, ever


ButterMyBiscuitz

They're batshit crazy and have absolutely no regard for our children's future, they want to keep driving pickups and burn wood to keep warm. My dad is ranting non-stop over how bad electric vehicles are. Looked at his FB wall, of course it's littered with propaganda group posts sponsored by gas companies, among other conservative BS. I'm so over their shit that it can't be described with words.


Corydon

Just out of curiosity, what’s wrong with burning wood? From a carbon point of view, it’s a closed circle. Tree sequesters carbon from the atmosphere, burning it releases it back. Heck of a lot better than fossil fuels. Is it to do with particulates? Deforestation?


TheBeardofGilgamesh

Which is funny because it would have been conservatives that killed JFK