“Welcome to Big ‘D’” reads a banner on a bus’s window as John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passes an enthusiastic throng of spectators on the streets of Dallas on November 22, 1963, none of them suspecting the horror that would unfold mere moments later just yards away.
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