John Fitzgerald Kennedy

in #life9 years ago

In 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and was accompanied by his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, who rarely accompanied her husband on his political tours, but this time Next to him, with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, in a procession through downtown Dallas on November 22. As the President's car drove past the school bookstore building in Texas, at about 12:30 pm, Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the building, injuring President Kennedy with fatal injuries and seriously injuring Texas Governor Conally. President Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was the third car behind President Kennedy in the procession, was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States at 2:39 pm.
He was sworn in on Air Force One while the plane was on the Dallas Love Field airport runway. Thirty people, including the wife of President Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still dressed in her husband's blood, were sworn in.
Seven minutes later, the presidential plane took off to Washington. The next day, President Johnson issued his first announcement, declaring that November 25 was a national day of mourning. On Monday, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch President Kennedy's funeral, which was carried by an official procession to the Arlington National Cemetery, where 99 leaders gathered to bid farewell and were buried there.

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