Dallas, TX | May 19

Monday was a down day. Typically, you have a day between your tech scout and your shoot day (at least) so you have time to make changes or additions to your equipment order and anything else that comes up on the tech scout. We spent the morning doing god knows what then around 11am, we headed over to Dealey Plaza to see the sight of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.



There's really not much to mark the site, which I found strange. There are two "x's" painted on the street. The first is where the first shot hit Kennedy in the neck, then 30 or so yards later, a second "x" which was the head shot.



There are, however, guys standing around who will sell you a newsprint commemorative paper detailing all kinds of conspiracy theories. We bought one. Seriously, how could you not? But we hung out for awhile amazed at how small the area actually is, and how it wouldn't really have been that hard of a shot. Not like we thought it was.

We also visited the "6th Floor" which is the museum at the Dallas School Book Depository Building. Supposedly Oswald shot Kennedy from a window on the sixth floor. It was an interesting museum and I actually learned some things I didn't know, but then I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, so I've never read much on the Kennedy assassination. I didn't even see the Oliver Stone movie.

The client's came in later that afternoon, we went through wardrobe quickly then they went out to dinner and myself, Don, the director of photography, and Cris, the producer, went to dinner and discussed the shoot.

Actually, one other thing. We were sitting down to dinner at this Italian restaurant and they both were going to order clams. Now I'm not a frightened eater by any means but the idea of eating shellfish some 1500 miles away from the ocean, the day before a long shoot.....

Well, let's just say they changed their order.