ent's right. He waved to the crowd as he
             passed the building. Dealey Plaza, a landscaped area marking the end of downtown
             Dallas, was on the President's left.
             A Secret Service Agent, whom was riding in the motorcade, radioed ahead that
             the President would arrive in five minutes. As soon as the President arrived the shots
             rang out in rapid fury. Kennedy's hands moved to embrace his neck as blood gushed
             through his fingers onto the floor of the Presidential limousine. Kennedy appeared to
             stiffen for a few seconds and he leaned forward in his seat to gasp a breath.
             The crowd looked stunned with disarray. The Secret Servicemen then huddled
             around the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Governor Connally was also shot and had
             serious wounds. The Presidential limousine then proceeded with full speed to the
             Parkland Memorial Hospital, which was a total distance of four miles. When the
             President arrived at the hospital, he was immediately treated by physicians who had been
             alerted of the President's arrival by the Dallas Police Department by radio from the
             The doctor's noted irregular breathing movements and a possible heartbeat,
             although they could not find a pulse. They examined the bloody wound in the
             President's head and a smaller wound, which was 1/4 inch in diameter in the lower 1/3 of
             his neck. The physicians a Tracheotomy. The physicians were so obsorbed in saving the
             Presidents' life that they never turned the President over for an examination of his back.
             last rights were administered by a priest, President Kennedy was pronounced dead.
             Governor Connaly underwent surgery and recovered from his wounds.
             When Vice - President Johnson learned of Kennedy's death he left the hospital
             under close guard and flew away in the Presidential plain. At 2:38 p.m., in the central
             compartment of the plain, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 39th Pres...