U.S. President John F. Kennedy fatally wounded while riding in Dallas motorcade 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 22 1963)


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(Friday, November 22, 1963, 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 46, was fatally shot today by a sniper while riding as a passenger in a Lincoln Continental motorcade in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.


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Kennedy was accompanied by his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally and Texas first lady Nellie Connally, Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman, and the driver, agent William Greer.


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The group was part of several cars in a motorcade of vehicles on the way from the Dallas airport, Love Field, to the Dallas Trade Mart, where the President was scheduled to deliver a speech at a luncheon for 2,600 guests.

At 12:30 p.m. CST, as their car was passing in front of the Texas School Book Depository at 411 Elm Street, President Kennedy and Governor Connally were struck by bullets fired at long range.


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Kennedy was shot twice, in the upper back and in the head, by Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the nearby Texas School Book Depository, using a high-powered rifle from a sixth floor window depository building.


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Gov. Connally was also hit by the same bullet that penetrated Kennedy’s upper back.

The assassination was inadvertently documented by a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera.


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The President arrived at the Parkland Memorial Hospital at 12:38 p.m. and was taken into surgery, and pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m.


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Oswald, 24, left the building approximately three minutes after the shots were fired, and went to his home at 1026 North Beckley Avenue.


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At 1:15 p.m., Oswald shot Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit four times. He was seen walking into a cinema, the Texas Theatre, where patrolman M. N. “Nick” McDonald disarmed and arrested him at 1:50 p.m.