Pewter model of the Texas School Book Depository

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You can now have your very own detailed replica of the Texas School Book Depository Building as it looked on November 22, 1963, the day Lee Harvey Oswald (allegedly) shot John F. Kennedy from the sixth floor. This fine pewter reproduction is 3-1/4" tall. What's next, a scale model of the grassy knoll? Loren Coleman has more over at Twilight Language. "Own The Texas School Book Depository Building"

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Somewhere recently I saw a poll question, “if you die and go to Heaven, what do you want God to say to you?” I think He can save himself a lot of one-on-one time by posting a sign at the pearly gates:

“Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, and he did it all by himself. -G”
nosehat

From the link:

For assassination researchers, it is well worth owning. … I highly recommend it be acquired by serious investigators.

O_o
Really? Someone’s going to get this, put it on their desk, look at it, and suddenly discover … what exactly?
- Bucket
  
  They’re going to discover that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t possibly have shot JFK, because there’s NO WAY he could have fit into such a TINY BUILDING! I mean, what was he, an ant?
  - pupdog
    
    There’s not even an open window! Who are they trying to fool…
  - dculberson
    
    It needs to be at least .. THREE TIMES BIGGER than this!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Someone’s going to get this, put it on their desk, look at it, and suddenly discover … what exactly?
  
  The laws of physics. Possibly for the first time.
- tsa
  
  Ever heard of the word ‘sarcasm?’
Nylund

I literally just drove past this building. Every time I do so, I get creeped out by the fact that there are X’s painted in the lane marking the precise locations where the bullets hit JFK. Its just weird. They look so mundanely municipal. Its like, “Oh what are those marks? Is that where the water main is?” ”Nope. That is where the leader of free world was murdered in broad daylight.”
- Maddy
  
  Me too! I just drove by it twice this weekend. It’s so weird to suddenly realize, “hey, I’m driving on the same spot where I’ve watched that guy get killed over and over” …
dagfooyo

I had no idea there was a giant ad for a rent-a-car company on top of the building.
http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

It’s a riddle,
wrapped in an enigma,
and handsomely electroplated in antique pewter :)
http://openid.aol.com/jeffbaker70 Jeff

At first glance, I thought it was made of chocolate :(
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000888183282 Nate Cougill

I need another pewter model like I need another hole in my head
http://twitter.com/Jsdeangelis Joseph DeAngelis

The date on the bottom goes back and to the left. Back and to the left.
Bruce Heerssen

Next they should make a pewter replica of the University of Texas clock tower.
RJ

I’m getting one to display next to my gold-plated headphone amp.
mccrum

This will go so well with my pewter Ford’s Theatre and pewter Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, I must collect the whole set…
- David Hall
  
  Sarah Vowell, is that you?
fnarf

You’d think they could have done something to prevent this horrible tragedy, what with the date printed right there on the side of the building like that.
i_prefer_yeti

Reminds me strongly of the Boym Partners project “Buildings of Disaster” they started in 1998.

I snapped up Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Princess Di.

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artists/5306/artwork

Here’s their Texas Book Depository:

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/29686
- mccrum
  
  Wow. I had no idea. I’m betting they made millions.
  - i_prefer_yeti
    
    sure beats collecting spoons!
    - mccrum
      
      I suppose I’ll just come out with a collectable spoon set made from disaster scenes. What a Venn diagram that clientele is…
Antinous / Moderator

This is a thaumaturgist’s wet dream.
- querent
  
  you win them webs for the day.
Gulliver

Come on, everybody, it’s well documented that aliens ordered LBJ to have JFK shot because he’d discovered they were making crop-circles. Wake up, gullible sheeple! Sheesh!
- Andrew Singleton
  
  Same aliens that told the egyptians, mayans, and all the secrets of the universe. They simply came back, were disgusted with what they were seeing, ordered the hit job, and left again.
- querent
  
  “sheeple” is still a viable word. i’m taking it back.
  - Gulliver
    
    “sheeple” is still a viable word. i’m taking it back.
    
    Hehe…one of my favorite neologisms too. Luckily, there’s enough sheeple to go around :)
    
    Though, thanks to Randall Munroe I can’t think “sheeple” without seeing this:
    
    http://xkcd.com/610/
http://www.facebook.com/pianoarthur Arthur Schwartz

This is quite interesting:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/06/16/a-new-to-me-theory-about-the-kennedy-assassination-it-was-an-accident
awjt

They should have left the sixth floor window “slightly ajar.”
Jewels Vern

It makes about as much sense as Christians putting crosses all around.
oasisob1

Yes, make one out of chocolate, please!
- mccrum
  
  Let’s hope it’s not poor taste!
querent

I’ll take geomancy for 1k.
Maddy

When your cube-mate places this with dramatic flourish on his desk, it could be your cue to call in sick the next day.
Talia

Is this the same book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba?
http://www.facebook.com/alistair.davidson Alistair Davidson

“…and it’s REAL accurate, too, you know why? Cause Oswald’s not in it…” /billhicks
http://ignition.rs/ IGNTNUNLMTD

Lee Harvey Oswald? No no no, Alex Mason killed JFK.