Executive Action: "A Shabby Fiction about JFK"

[Michael Capasse]

This is the description of the motorcade route published in the Nov 19 issue of the Dallas Times Herald:

"From the airport, the President's party will proceed to Mockingbird Lane to Lemmon and then to Turtle Creek, turning south to Cedar Springs.
The motorcade will then pass through downtown on Harwood and then west on Main, turning back to Elm at Houston and then out Stemmons Freeway to the Trade Mart."

The same day, the Morning News described the motorcade path downtown as travelling from "Harwood to Main, Main to Houston, Houston to Elm, Elm under the Triple Underpass to Stemmons Freeway, and on to the Trade Mart"

The motorcade route published in the 11/21 issue of the Times Herald shows the same route as previously described, including the Elm jog:

https://www.jfk.org/collections-archive/front-page-clipping-from-dallas-times-herald-11-21-1963/

  ...and a map with a previous route that was published on the morning of.

[John Corbett]

This is the description of the motorcade route published in the Nov 19 issue of the Dallas Times Herald:

"From the airport, the President's party will proceed to Mockingbird Lane to Lemmon and then to Turtle Creek, turning south to Cedar Springs.
The motorcade will then pass through downtown on Harwood and then west on Main, turning back to Elm at Houston and then out Stemmons Freeway to the Trade Mart."

The same day, the Morning News described the motorcade path downtown as travelling from "Harwood to Main, Main to Houston, Houston to Elm, Elm under the Triple Underpass to Stemmons Freeway, and on to the Trade Mart"

The motorcade route published in the 11/21 issue of the Times Herald shows the same route as previously described, including the Elm jog:

https://www.jfk.org/collections-archive/front-page-clipping-from-dallas-times-herald-11-21-1963/

The articles you quoted make the point very clear. There was no change to the planned route of the motorcade. It was ALWAYS intended to make the turn on Houston to bet over to Elm St. It is the only route that made any sense. The planners wanted to stay on Main St. all through downtown Dallas.

The story of the assassination is loaded with what-ifs. What-if one of the other sites considered for the luncheon had been selected. It is likely the motorcade would have gone in the opposite direction. From Love Field, the motorcade would have gone west toward I-35 (Stemmons), headed south to Main St. and gone east on Main St. through downtown before taking the quickest route to whichever site had been selected. Had that happened, Oswald would have had a very difficult long range cross shot at JFK on Main St. with Jackie in the way. Most likely Oswald wouldn't have even attempted the shot and most of us would have never heard about him. 

[Mitch Todd]

...and a map with a previous route that was published on the morning of.

There was never a "previous route." 

[Michael Capasse]

There was never a "previous route."

There most certainly was.
  Both were printed in the local papers