On this present day in historical past, Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy — the thirty fifth president of the USA — was assassinated whereas using in an open-car motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas.
The surprising occasion of 60 years in the past occurred close to the tip of JFK’s third yr as president.
Driving in the identical automotive as Kennedy and first girl Jacqueline Kennedy was Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in addition to Connally’s spouse, Nellie Connally.
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That very same day, the suspect within the capturing, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president that day in addition to the surprised nation absorbed the blow of so instantly and violently shedding its elected president.
‘Gunfire instantly reverberated’
Crowds of excited individuals lined the streets of Dallas and waved to the Kennedys that day, because the JFK Library’s web site notes of the president’s marketing campaign occasion — one in every of a number of — that day in Texas.
President John F. Kennedy speaks to the nation in his inaugural tackle on Jan. 20, 1961, sharing what some take into account his most well-known assertion: “And so my fellow People, ask not what your nation can do for you; ask what you are able to do in your nation. My fellow residents of the world, ask not what America will do for you, however what we will do for the liberty of man.” (AP 1961)
“The automotive turned off Foremost Avenue at Dealey Plaza round 12:30 p.m. Because it was passing the Texas College Ebook Depository, gunfire instantly reverberated within the plaza,” the web site additionally particulars.
“Bullets struck the president’s neck and head and he slumped over towards Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was shot in his again.”
“Little might be finished for the president.”
Proper after the capturing, “the automotive sped off to Parkland Memorial Hospital just some minutes away,” the JFK Library’s web site additionally notes.
“However little might be finished for the president. A Catholic priest was summoned to manage the final rites, and at 1:00 p.m. John F. Kennedy was pronounced lifeless.”
Texas Gov. John Connally (foreground) seems on as President Kennedy and first girl Jacqueline Kennedy settle into the rear seats of their limo as their motorcade prepares to move to downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. (Getty)
Gov. Connally had been critically wounded however later recovered.
“The president’s physique was dropped at Love Area and positioned on Air Pressure One,” the web site additionally notes.
“Earlier than the airplane took off, a grim-faced Lyndon B. Johnson stood within the tight, crowded compartment and took the oath of workplace, administered by U.S. District Court docket Choose Sarah Hughes.”
The time was 2:38 p.m.
‘Complete metropolis had turned up’
Bob Huffaker, a former reporter at KRLD Radio in Dallas, was an eyewitness to the capturing, in line with Reuters.
“It regarded as if the whole metropolis had turned up,” stated Huffaker about that day in November. “It was actually nice. Dallas had proven that it actually cherished that president.”
“From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. Central Commonplace Time, 2 o’clock Japanese Commonplace Time, some 38 minutes in the past.” — Walter Cronkite
One other eyewitness, Hugh Aynesworth, a former reporter for the Dallas Morning Information, stated, “Then I heard what I believed was a bike backfiring, solely it wasn’t — it was the primary shot, after which in a number of seconds, one other shot and a 3rd,” additionally in line with Reuters.
Mentioned the famed Walter Cronkite of CBS Information that day throughout an on-camera information bulletin that broke into the then-in-progress “As The World Turns” cleaning soap opera on the community: “From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. Central Commonplace Time, 2 o’clock Japanese Commonplace Time, some 38 minutes in the past.”
Viewers throughout America watched
Lower than an hour earlier than that, nevertheless, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, “a not too long ago employed worker on the Texas College Ebook Depository,” the JFK Library’s web site says.
“He was being held for the assassination of President Kennedy and the deadly capturing, shortly afterward, of Patrolman J. D. Tippit on a Dallas avenue.”
Texas Rangers escort accused Kennedy murderer Lee Harvey Oswald right into a Dallas police facility. (Getty Pictures)
Then, on Sunday morning, Nov. 24, “Oswald was scheduled to be transferred from police headquarters to the county jail. Viewers throughout America watching the reside tv protection instantly noticed a person intention a pistol and fireplace at point-blank vary.”
Provides the web site of the caught-on-camera crime, “The assailant was recognized as Jack Ruby, a neighborhood nightclub proprietor. Oswald died two hours later at Parkland Hospital.”
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That very same day, President Kennedy’s “flag-draped casket was moved from the White Home to the Capitol on a caisson drawn by six [gray] horses, accompanied by one riderless black horse,” the library additionally notes.
President John F. Kennedy posing for an image at his desk with a U.S. flag within the backdrop. (Alfred Eisenstaedt/Pix Inc./The LIFE Image Assortment by way of Getty Pictures)
“Crowds lined Pennsylvania Avenue and lots of wept overtly because the caisson handed.”
“Throughout the 21 hours that the president’s physique lay in state within the Capitol Rotunda, about 250,000 individuals filed by to pay their respects.”
One of many “most indelible photographs of the day” was the salute by a younger little one, 3-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr., to his deceased father.
On Monday, Nov. 25, 1963, Kennedy was laid to relaxation in Arlington Nationwide Cemetery.
“The funeral was attended by heads of state and representatives from greater than 100 nations, with untold tens of millions extra watching on tv. Afterward, on the grave website, Mrs. Kennedy and her husband’s brothers, Robert and Edward, lit an everlasting flame.”
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Any American alive on the time and watching can probably nonetheless recall one of many “most indelible photographs of the day”: the salute by a younger little one to his father (John F. Kennedy Jr. was solely three years outdated on the time), plus “daughter Caroline kneeling subsequent to her mom on the president’s bier, and the extraordinary grace and dignity proven by Jacqueline Kennedy,” writes the JFK library’s web site.
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Many unanswered questions stay to this present day about Kennedy’s assassination.
Within the many years since, conspiracy theories and hypothesis of all types have surfaced and proceed to be debated and mentioned.
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