Before President Kennedy came into office, a U-2 plane was shot down in the Soviet Union while spying on the Soviet Union, thus cutting all Diplomatic ties between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... Malcolm was killed by a pair of point blank range shots to the chest. ... As the motorcade approached an underpass, two shots were fired in rapid succession. ... Ninety minutes after Kennedy was fatally shot, Vice president Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One. ... "On November 24, a Dallas Man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald before there was a chance to put him on trial."...

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