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November 22, 1963, President and Mrs. Kennedy were in Dallas, Texas.
As the motorcade approached an underpass, two shots were fired in rapid
succession. One bullet passed through Kennedy's neck, and the other bullet
hit the president in the head. At 1:00PM, he was pronounced dead; he had
never regained consciousness. Ninety minutes after Kennedy was fatally
shot, Vice-president Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One.
That afternoon, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with murder.
"On November 24, a Dallas Man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald before
there was a chance to put him on trial." (www.thinkquest.com). John F.
Kennedy was survived by his wife and his two children. Kennedy's death was
During the sixties, the Civil Rights Movement was in full force. With
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