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PLEASE ALLOW ME TO TIE UP A FEW LOOSE ENDS . .

    When I began writing this blog I promised myself that I would

  

 Better yet

I'm not so sure I've managed the first part (keep it simple)

or the second (to the point);

but I hope that I've succeeded at keeping it interesting.

                                          

                                                                         

My original intention was to casually write about the music I've enjoyed collecting and listening to for many years, and my first few posts are reflective of that. 

Then one day I got this bright idea

I'm gonna write about the 1963 Dick Clark Caravan of Stars tour!

A friend (Greg Topper) had sent me the link to Myron Lee's  (Myron Lee & the Caddies) home movie from the 1963 tour several months before, and that combined with the fact that I'd read Dick Clark's book, Rock Roll & Remember, years ago in which he'd written extensively about the Caravan of Stars lead me to write about the '63 tour.

As I began writing I discovered something I'd never known; the tour had rolled into Dallas, Texas the morning of November 22, 1963 for a show that was scheduled that night at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium. 

Suddenly, the plot thickened.

In high school I read the book, "They've Killed The President!"

which worked to further fuel my fascination for the Kennedy assassination and the lingering questions surrounding the murder. 

Now, due to this startling revelation about the tour being in Dallas on the day the president was shot; what was meant to be a casual examination of the '63 Caravan of Stars tour expanded to include some surprising elements of the never ending mystery of JFK's assassination.


F O R   I N S T A N C E :

On the day of the assassination, Dick Clark and the stars of the tour checked into the Dallas Sheraton which was only a few blocks from where Kennedy would be shot.  I was surprised to learn who else was staying at the Sheraton on that day . .



George H. W. Bush

Interesting . .

There are those who believe this photo shows George H. W. Bush standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository in the moments following the assassination.

Former President Bush (41) has claimed that he wasn't a member of the CIA in 1963, but a memo from J. Edgar Hoover obtained through a Freedom of Information lawsuit appears to state otherwise:

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