JFK Assassinatoin
November 22, 1963, will always be recognized as one of the saddest days in the history of the United States. That was the day that the promising political career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was ended with the now infamous shots in Dallas, Texas. John F. Kennedy was traveling in an open top limousine in a motorcade traveling at approximately six miles an hour. While rounding a corner near the Texas School Book Depository, a shot rang out, and struck the President in the neck. This first shot passed through him and then proceeded to hit the passenger in front of him, John Connally, the Governor of Texas. A secret service agent, who was in the car behind them, ran to the vehicle but was too late to stop the second shot from also reaching the President. The second bullet hit President Kennedy in the back of his head, and propelled his head into his wife Jacqueline’s lap, who was sitting at his side. When the secret service agent finally reached the car, he dove on top of both! Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy and shielded them with his body to protect them from any further harm. As soon as the secret service agents realized what happened, they sped off, notified a nearby hospital that the Presidential li
Press secretary. (14) Mr. Kilduff announced the presidents death, with choked voice and red rimmed eyes at about one thirty six P. M. President John F. Kennedy died at approximately one o’clock Central standard time in Dallas. (15) Mr. Kilduff said at the hospital. “He died of a gun shot wound in the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of president Kennedy.” The New York Times, the first major newspaper to publish an article about the shooting in Dallas, reported in their afternoon paper that President Kennedy was shot and killed while in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was also in the motorcade, was not injured in the shooting. Johnson took oath to become the President of the U.S. while in the Presidential plane as it stood on the runway preparing to return to Washington. The body of President John F. Kennedy was also on board. Immediately after the oath, the plane took off and headed for Washington. (2) Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in at 2:39 P. M. Standing next to Lyndon Baines Johnson as he was being sworn in to office, was Mrs. Kennedy still covered in her husband’s blood.
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