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My My parents are Australian, making me a proud first-generation American. They came over in the early 70s after the engineering firm my father worked for announced

they were expanding to the U.S. and opening up new offices.

Of course, moving to America was an exciting prospect for a young, childless Australian couple,

so my dad eagerly volunteered. I don't think he even consulted my mother at the time,

merely checked a box on a memo saying, yes, I would be interested in moving to the other side of

the world and leaving everything I've known behind for a chance at uncertain reward and unfamiliar surroundings. After that, though, he promptly forgot about the whole thing.

So he was a bit surprised when they accepted and told him to pack up for the states,

giving him the option of several cities, San Diego, Phoenix, Little Rock, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City,

El Paso, and the one he ultimately chose, Dallas.

My father liked Dallas because it seemed to be close to the middle of everything,

which is a very practical and naive engineer's choice.

But Dallas was also the only city on the list he'd actually ever heard of because of the

JFK assassination.

That's not a great recommendation for a city, of course.

And for years after the death of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas was known as the city of

hate. But of course, it wasn't the city of Dallas that shot Kennedy. It was Lee Harvey

Oswald, or so we've been told. Now, it was Lee Harvey Oswald. But that truth hasn't stopped

hundreds of conspiracy theories from springing up over the years. The list of who hasn't been

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