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Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign.
Sep 13, 2023 · Paul Landis, an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent who witnessed the president's death at close range, says in new memoir that he took a bullet from the car after Mr Kennedy was shot, and...
Nov 24, 2009 · This Day In History: 11/22/1963 - Kennedy Assassinated. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated in 1963 while traveling through Dallas,...
Nov 22, 2023 · The JFK assassination: As it happened. By Bob Schieffer. Updated on: November 22, 2023 / 5:00 AM EST / CBS News. Editor's note: This story originally ran on the 50th anniversary of JFK's...
Apr 3, 2024 · On November 22, 1963, U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, while being driven through the city. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested shortly after the murder and accused of killing Kennedy. Oswald declared his innocence. Oswald, a former Marine who had spent time in the Soviet.
At 12:30 pm the president was struck by two rifle bullets, one at the base of his neck and one in the head. He was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The assassination was captured on film by Abraham Zapruder and his home movie became a key and much-disputed piece of evidence.
Ruby was tried and convicted of murder in Oswald's death. He died of cancer in January 1967, while awaiting a retrial in prison. The dramatic course of events led many to wonder whether a conspiracy was afoot.
