JFK Assassination

Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America.

On November 22, 1963, at approximately 12:30 p.m., local time, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nelly Connally. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Hospital where, at 1 p.m., the President was pronounced dead.

Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from the top floor of the Texas Book Depository. Oswald used a WWII surplus Italian M1891/38 Carcano chambered in 6.5×52 Mannlicher-Carcano.

Oswald was a radar operator in the USMC. After getting out of the Corps in 1959, Oswald defected to the USSR.

Prior to his assassination of Kennedy, Oswald attempted to kill retired Army Major General Edwin Walker. The authorities did not have a suspect in that shooting until the Kennedy investigation started.

Within hours of Kennedy being declared dead, then-Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President.