On this Day: 22 November 1963
56 years ago, today, American
President, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated while driving in Dallas among a
motorcade, during a campaign visit. The motorcade was turning past the Texas
School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza as crowds watched lined upon on the
streets, and suddenly Kennedy was shot dead. The driver immediately raced to
the nearby Parkland Memorial Hospital, but because the shots were in the neck
and head, Kennedy was pronounced dead half an hour after the events unfolded.
Kennedy would later be remembered by Americans and the rest of the world for
the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, two events that took
place in the height of the Cold War that caused mass tension around the world.
Later in the day, Marxist Lee Harvey
Oswald was arrested as a suspect for JFK’s assassination. However, only two
days later would Oswald be murdered by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby at an
extremely close range, on live TV.
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