President and Mrs. Kennedy motorcade to downtown Dallas 50 years ago this hour (1963)


Video: 'UPDATE JFK Motorcade Love Field to Dealey Plaza to Parkland 22 Nov 1963'

(Friday, November 22, 1963, 11:48 a.m. CST) — President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy left Love Field in Dallas in an open car motorcade headed for a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart with Governor and Mrs. John Conally seated in front of them. Over 150,000 people lined the ten mile motorcade route (note: the motorcade turned off Harwood onto Main Street in downtown Dallas at 12:21 p.m. and reached the Adolphus Hotel at 12:27 p.m. The president was shot while riding in Dealey Plaza at 12:30 p.m.; the presidential limousine arrived at Parkland Hospital at 12:36 p.m. CST.).