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Nov 7, 2021 · These historic photos of President John F. Kennedy's assassination and autopsy reveal the calamity that unfolded in Dallas in November 1963. Rare photos that provide a new perspective on this historic tragedy.
- John Kuroski
Nov 19, 2013 · The image, part of the Dallas Police Department's John F. Kennedy collection, describes an "unknown officer pointing to the seat where Oswald sat." Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the Texas...
- 8:45 Am: Hotel Texas
- 11:30 Am-11:45 Am: Arrival at Love Field and The Beginning of The Motorcade
- 12:30 PM: Shots Fired
- 1:00 PM: Death of A President
- 1:45 PM: Arrest
- 2:39 PM: Swearing-In
- 6:05 PM: Andrews Air Force Base
- 11:28 PM: Charged
In the morning hours of the 22nd, President Kennedy gave two speeches: one outside in the parking lot of the Hotel Texas and one indoorsat a Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The first one took place at around 8:45 AM, as thousands of citizens stood outside in the rain to see the president. Kennedy arrived at the second speech about 25 minu...
After a thirteen-minute plane journey from Fort Worth, the President and First Lady greeted a group of people waiting at Love Field in Dallas. “He had the warmest welcome of his trip from a great crowd at the airport,” Alistair Cooke wrote for The Guardianshortly thereafter. “The cries and pleas for a personal touch were so engaging that Mrs. Kenne...
As the motorcade moved through Dealey Plaza, three shots rang out. At first, they sounded like fireworks; some bystanders assumed the motorcade had backfired. In a moment, everything changed, turning “gayety into horror,” as Edward T. Folliard wrote that day for The Washington Post. President Kennedy and Governor Connally were hit, though the latte...
At Parkland Hospital, a team of doctors struggled to keep Kennedy alive. According to reports, he survived for approximately forty minutes. His time of death was listed as 1:00, when two priests finished his final rites, though the exact time of death is unknown. The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the brain. The president was forty-six year...
After sneaking into a movie theater in Oak Cliff, a 24-year-old Lee H. Oswald was arrested. Later, he would be questioned about the Kennedy killing as well as the murder of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit, who was shot shortly after the assassination. “He put up a wild fight in the theater,” The Los Angeles Timesreported on November 23rd. “Poli...
Kennedy’s Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, standing between Jacqueline Kennedy and his wife Lady Bird, took the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field. 99 minutes had elapsed since the shooting. Only about twenty-five to thirty people were present for the ceremony. By 2:46 PM, they were wheels-up, headed for Washington with the body of...
When asked if she wanted to change her bloodied clothing, Mrs. Kennedy demurred, stating firmly, “Let them see what they have done.” She repeated the same words when asked about allowing the press at Andrews Air Force Base. When she arrived with her husband’s casket, she joined hands with Robert Kennedy, who had been there waiting for the plane to ...
As November 22nd drew to a close, Oswald was formally charged with the murder of John F. Kennedy. He denied the charges; as Dan Rather of CBS News put it at the time, “Oswald has admitted nothing.” Two days later, Jack Ruby, the owner of a local nightclub, shot Oswald as police transported the accused assassin to the county jail. He died in the eme...
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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...
- Kayla Epstein
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
Nov 14, 2013 · Sonia King was just 10-years-old when her father, a Dallas jewelry wholesaler, photographed the sun-splashed, cheerful scene in Dealey Plaza mere minutes before President John Kennedy was...
May 15, 2014 · On the 46th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's assassination, LIFE.com presents a series of photos from that night by the great Bill Eppridge.
