On November 22nd, 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the President of
the United States, was assassinated. The man, who was accused of
murdering the President, was Lee Harvey Oswald. There are many
speculations to whether Oswald did murder the President, and if it was a
conspiracy, but it was proven later that it was him acting alone.
Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected President in the United
States of America. He was the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
While President he had many accomplishments; one was the constructing of
the Berlin Wall which divided East and West Berlin. Before his presidential
campaigning, he was a marine, a very heroic marine at that. He married
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in 1953. They had 3 children, one that was born
prematurely and died soon after its birth.
On November 22nd 1963 the President was in Dallas, Texas
campaigning to get more votes. He was on his way to luncheon riding in a
convertible with his wife next to him, the Texas Governor in front of him
and two cars behind was the Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. There were
large crowds around the motorcade as he passed through the streets.
When traveling under an underpass two shots were fired at the
motorcade. Kennedy was struck in the neck with the first bullet and it
traveled right through his neck, then hit the Governor of Texas in the back.
The second bullet struck the President in the head. The President's wife then
put the president's head on her lap and the vehicle rushed to the nearest
hospital. The President had never regained consciousness and approximately
thirty minutes later, at 1:00 PM, he was pronounced dead. Lyndon B.
Johnson was pronounced the thirty-sixth U.S. President two hours later.
The shots that killed Kennedy were shot from a nearby warehouse
from the sixth floor. Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee at the
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