Video: 'November 24, 1963 - Dr. Tom Shires, chief of surgery, announces Lee Harvey Oswald dead'

(Sunday, November 24, 1963, 1:07 p.m. CST) — Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy, died this afternoon less than two hours after he was shot by a bystander at the Police and Courts Building in downtown Dallas in full view of millions of people watching on television.

Oswald was shot by local nightclub operator Jack Ruby, who emerged suddenly from the crowd of newsmen and policemen witnessing Oswald’s transfer to the county jail and fired his .38 revolver once.

Oswald was rushed unconscious to Parkland Memorial Hospital—the same hospital where doctors tried to save President Kennedy’s life two days earlier.

An autopsy was performed by the Dallas County Medical Examiner at 2:45 p.m. The stated cause of death in the autopsy report was “hemorrhage secondary to gunshot wound of the chest.”