JFK Assassinated: Dallas Shocks the World
President John F. Kennedy was shot while riding in an open motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Kennedy was struck twice and died at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00 p.m. He was 46 years old. Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One two hours later, with Jacqueline Kennedy standing beside him in her blood-stained pink suit. Oswald was arrested 80 minutes after the shooting and killed two days later by Jack Ruby in the Dallas police station basement on live television. The Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone. Public opinion has never fully accepted this finding: polls consistently show that roughly 60% of Americans believe others were involved.
November 22, 1963
63 years ago
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