John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas on November 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States at 2:39 p.m. He took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband’s blood. Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.
The next day, November 23, President Johnson issued his first proclamation, declaring November 25 to be a day of national mourning for the slain president. On that Monday, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch a horse-drawn caisson bear Kennedy’s body from the Capitol Rotunda to St. Matthew’s Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass. The solemn procession then continued on to Arlington National Cemetery, where leaders of 99 nations gathered for the state funeral. Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.
Lee Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans in 1939, joined the U.S. Marines in 1956. He was discharged in 1959 and nine days later left for the Soviet Union, where he tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen. He worked in Minsk and married a Soviet woman and in 1962 was allowed to return to the United States with his wife and infant daughter. In early 1963, he bought a .38 revolver and rifle with a telescopic sight by mail order, and on April 10 in Dallas he allegedly shot at and missed former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker, a figure known for his extreme right-wing views. Later that month, Oswald went to New Orleans and founded a branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro organization. In September 1963, he went to Mexico City, where investigators allege that he attempted to secure a visa to travel to Cuba or return to the USSR. In October, he returned to Dallas and took a job at the Texas School Book Depository Building.
Less than an hour after Kennedy was shot, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his rooming house in Dallas. Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theater by police responding to reports of a suspect. He was formally arraigned on November 23 for the murders of President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.
On November 24, Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure. As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot from a concealed .38 revolver. Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed that rage at Kennedy’s murder was the motive for his action. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder.
Jack Ruby, originally known as Jacob Rubenstein, operated strip joints and dance halls in Dallas and had minor connections to organized crime. He features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In his trial, Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy’s murder had caused him to suffer “psychomotor epilepsy” and shoot Oswald unconsciously. The jury found Ruby guilty of “murder with malice” and sentenced him to die.
In October 1966, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds of improper admission of testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time. In January 1967, while awaiting a new trial, to be held in Wichita Falls, Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital.
The official Warren Commission report of 1964 concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate President Kennedy. Despite its firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. The committee’s findings, as with those of the Warren Commission, continue to be disputed.
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I remember that day.
“The class” was assembled as usual in the tawdry “one armed” wrap-around wooden desks. Those desks usually bore the inscriptions of former occupant’s names and other iota long since forgotten. There is no accounting of the numbers of good minds lost in the doldrums of tedium suffused in those monotone monologues.
The cells were at least tastefully decorated. The floors were ‘jet-black’ and glossy, they must have been waxed innumerable times. I have asked as to their composition from people who ought to know, none have ever known the answer. The walls were of a ‘mint-green’ pastel color.above a shoulder height rail. The lower part of the wall was… black. The floors were yellow (well worn waxed) pine, stained and creaky. A very noisy cast iron steam radiator sat along the wall below the double-hung (corded. with large window weights) antique windows. The frames were painted white I think, …they were a kind of ivory/yellow. There were the obligatory ‘Der Staat’ items that were also included, a crank pencil sharpener above the olive drab steel trash can. The trash can always smelled of cedar, orange peels, apple cores and a whiff of vomit infused with “oil dry”, aka cat litter, used to absorb liquids. Included were two pictures over the blackboard and behind the schoolmarm, one each of George and Abe. Yup, presi-dents number won n’ too.
All of a sudden the ‘speaker-box’ high up on the wall started screeching. It was a funny looking old thing, it looked funny even to us then. Today most people would say it had the ‘Retro’ look. It had very thin brown loosely woven cloth cover over the speaker. The grill over the circular opening were two simple wooden 3/8″ x 3/8″ square shaped
vertically placed bars.
“Students will be released to go home for the rest of today. Please go to your usual bus in an orderly fashion as your Teacher directs.”
YEA! Hot damn!
We were not given a reason for the release. Most of us thought it was another war or maybe a Nuke-attack.
I guess most of us knew for sure when we could get to the radio or a TV.
That was only 57 years ago.
When did History.com become a parody site? Oh, right…..they’ve always been one.
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*The invention of the Zapruder Briefing for incoming executive branch members.
Interesting that the Richard J. Daley team stole the election for him and then the CIA killed him – apparently because he wasn’t compliant enough.
Don’t let your lying eyes deceive you. The bullet that violently threw the Presidents head backward and to the right, taking a huge chunk of it also flying backwards, was from a bullet fired behind the President. It’s utter nonsense to think a bullet fired from behind him wouldn’t do that. Although that would be the only time in the history of firearms such a reaction occurred; you just can’t trust your lying eyes.
And then drop on his gurney in pristine condition.
jacob hornberger on why kennedy was shot
https://www.fff.org/2020/11/16/why-regime-change-was-necessary-in-november-1963/?utm_source=FFF+Daily&utm_campaign=75a9701885-FFF+Daily+11-16-2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1139d80dff-75a9701885-318105774
i was only 5 when kennedy was shot,i remember going into my closet & crying & mom coming in & telling me that it was ok–
yeah,i was a sensitive,90 s kind of guy all the way back in the 60 s–
i doubt that anyone will ever know all the facts about kennedy’s killing,there are too many plausible theories & the govt is never going to release the info–
just to throw some gas & light a match on the multiple gunmen theory though i”ll put this here–i had a buddy(now deceased,isn’t that convenient, but it’s the truth) who was a retired sf sniper–
he & some of his sniper buds wanted to test & see if oswald could have made the shot on his own since people have stated over the years that only an expert could have made the shot–they sent off & bought the same kind of gun oswald used & then set up a course that approximated as much as possible the course,height,speed,angles,etc., of the event–
their conclusion was that it was a tough shot & that they did not believe oswald was able to make the shot though they could not conclusively rule it out–
PLAUSIBLE DENIAL by Mark Lane — Federal trial in Miami with a verdict of CIA guilt.
ACT OF TREASON by John Groden — Evidence before congressional committee of digital analysis of source of gunshots.
The day most of us learned that the CIA are the ones in control of our country, not a bunch of elected officials.
Like when they told Alexander Acosta, US Attorney in Miami, to leave Epstein alone because “he’s intelligence”.
11/22 – Deep State Celebration Day?
Ouch.