JFK Truthers Banned From Daley Plaza for 50th Anniversary: Jim Marrs Reports

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On Nov. 22, 2013, Dealey Plaza is expected to swarm with television cameras. For the past few months, officials at the adjacent Sixth Floor Museum have been quietly at work, trying to ensure that what those cameras capture won't embarrass the city. For one thing, they have been conducting a campaign to raise $2.2 million to complete the restoration of Dealey Plaza in time for the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. And to avoid the carnival atmosphere that has often prevailed at previous anniversaries on the plaza, museum officials are planning to take over commemoration activities there. "We have reserved Dealey Plaza for that date," said Nicola Longford, the museum's executive director. "I think, for the 50th anniversary, we have an opportunity to offer a dignified, appropriate event for the city of Dallas." That has not always been the case. Many people assume the annual gatherings at the plaza — which have attracted hundreds and, in some years, thousands of spectators — have had some official sanction. But the museum's decision actually reverses a hands-off policy by both the museum and the city of Dallas that has lasted decades. Only once before, when the plaza was dedicated as a National Historic Landmark district in 1993, has there been an official ceremony commemorating the assassination. Museum and city officials have said in the past that by avoiding such events, they were honoring the Kennedy family's wishes that the anniversary receive no official recognition in Dallas. In the organizational vacuum that resulted, ordinary people who came to the plaza to quietly honor the slain president found activities there often dominated by conspiracy theorists, performance artists and assorted publicity-seekers. Critics charged that on what should be a solemn day, a circus atmosphere has sometimes prevailed on the plaza. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/downtown-dallas/headlines/20111030-dallas-jfk-museum-to-oversee-dealey-plaza-events-for-50th-anniversary-of-assassination.ece By DAVID FLICK http://jimmarrs.com/ http://www.infowars.com/ http://www.prisonplanet.tv/ http://twitter.com/#!/RealAlexJones http://www.facebook.com/AlexanderEmerikJones