You can't always get what you want! Hundreds of disappointed QAnon followers give up waiting for JFK Jr to 'reappear on grassy knoll to announce 2020 VP run with Trump' and head to nearby Rolling Stones concert instead!
QAnon supporters changed their minds when JFK Jr. failed to appear on the mound where his father was killed, claiming he would come back from the dead at a Rolling Stones concert in Dallas later that day.
Hundreds of conspiracy theorists gathered on the infamous grassy knoll on Tuesday believing that JFK Jr. - who died in a plane crash in 1999 - was going to come back to life and run as Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate in 2024.
But when he failed to appear at the ordained time - 12.29pm, the time that his father was shot dead - a troop of them dashed off to the Stones concert at the Cotton Bowl instead.
JFK Jr., who was an actor and magazine publisher, is a popular figure within the QAnon conspiracy movement, with some believing that he is in fact Q, the group's anonymous leader.
Asked when their messiah was going to arrive, the Q believers told reporters that JFK Jr. was going to appear at 12.29pm. When that time rolled around the people started reciting the pledge of allegiance but there was no sign of the former president's son.
They stuck around, clinging to the hope that their wildest dreams would come true and the Qs remained at the hallowed site even as a torrential downpour drenched their signs and banners which said: 'Trump / JFK JR 2020.'
Some envisioned that he would arrive triumphantly. 'We're expecting a parade,' said a woman named Ginny who had travelled 700 miles from Nebraska.
'JFK is going to be here,' she told Rolling Stone magazine.
Ginny described how many dead celebrities, such as the comedian Richard Pryor, are actually still alive and are part of a secret plan which would be revealed at the Rolling Stones concert at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas that night.
'Robin Williams was here the other day … Michael Jackson is high in the movement,' she told the magazine.
The Rolling Stones were indeed in fine voice at the Cotton Bowl that night, with Mick Jagger gyrating on stage in front of legions of fans. But there was no sign of JFK Jr.
Some of the supporters were seen chanting 'Let's Go Brandon,' a euphemism for 'F*** Joe Biden' as they held a Trump/Kennedy flag
The Rolling Stones were indeed in fine voice at the Cotton Bowl that night, with Mick Jagger gyrating on stage in front of legions of fans. But there was no sign of JFK Jr.
A crowd began to form on the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas as they waited for JFK Jr. to make his big announcement
The crowds lined up as they waited for JFK Jr to appear at 12.30pm - he did not
JFK Jr. is the son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis
He died in a plane crash off the coast of Massachusetts with his wife Carolyn in 1999
A popular QAnon theory, though, holds that he faked his death
JFK Jr. died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts in 1999, along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette and her sister, Lauren.
Navy divers found their bodies still strapped into their seats in the wreckage 18 hours after his plane, which he was piloting, disappeared.
Pictures posted to social media by Steven Monacelli, the publisher of Protean magazine, showed scores of people gathered outside the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas at around 8pm on Monday, demonstrating the staggering lure of QAnon.
Most were wearing shirts proudly displaying their support for Trump, with one women seen wearing a campaign-style T-shirt emblazoned with the words: 'Trump/JFK Jr.'
The next day, crowds could be seen on the grassy knoll where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, as they eagerly awaited the return of his long-dead son JFK Jr.
The QAnon crowd recited the Pledge of Allegiance at 12.29pm, expecting JFK Jr. to make his announcement at 12.30pm, and chanted, 'Let's Go Brandon,' a euphemism for ''F*** Joe Biden,' as they held a Trump/Kennedy flag.
As Monacelli writes, they were there due to a 'popular QAnon theory recently' that 'JFK Jr., of the Kennedy family, will be making a big announcement at Dealey Plaza by the grassy knoll.'
The event shows the power the QAnon movement still wields among its diehard supporters.
In 2019, Forbes reports, some believers expected JFK Jr. to return on July 4, again as Trump's running mate.
Mick Jagger posted a picture outside the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Tuesday ahead of the concert
The conspiracy theorists now reportedly believe JFK Jr., the son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, will reveal he switched political affiliations and faked his own death to avoid retribution, according to Gizmodo.
According to the theory, he would announce that he was running with former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but Trump would step down and let JFK Jr. step in as president and appoint former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as his vice president.
Trump would then 'most likely' become the king of kings, a popular QAnon Telegram account with more than 100,000 subscribers wrote about the conspiracy in a post on Monday. It did not specify what becoming the 'king of kings' would entail.
They also believed that after JFK Jr. would appear, the clocks would go back an hour, people would adopt the Julian calendar, and the date would go back to October 20, according to Newsweek.
JFK Jr., the theory posits, will then help usher in a new age American prosperity, as his father did in the 1960s.
Another user on Telegram, under the name Negative48, also offered the theory that JFK, JFK Jr. and Jackie Kennedy would all reappear, after which JFL would tour the world for seven days, transfer the presidency back to Trump and die, Gizmodo reports, even though that is not how presidential power works.
It is unclear why the QAnon followers thought JFK Jr. would appear at the location where his father was famously murdered in 1963.
But despite the fervor, 12.30pm came and went, Monacelli writes, and JFK Jr. did not appear.
One person on Telegram wrote afterwards: 'I'm sad for everybody. We now look like a bunch of liars, but let's keep the faith,' BBC Journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh said.
Pictures posted to social media by Steven Monacelli showed scores of people gathered outside the AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas at around 8pm on Monday, many of whom were wearing pro-Trump shirts
One of the shirts appeared to be a campaign-style T-shirt reading 'Trump/JFK Jr. 2024'
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