On this day, November 22, 1963, the 35th president of the United States is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in the car that was carrying him, just two years after taking office, in January 1961
On this day, November 22, 1963, US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in the car that was carrying him, just two years after taking office in January 1961.
The official US position is that young Lee Harvey Oswald was the perpetrator, a view that has been disputed by many, as he has denied the charges.
Two days after his arrest, amid a throng of police, journalists, photographers and television crews broadcasting Oswald’s transfer live on television, two policemen were holding him when a man stepped in front of them, shot and killed Oswald.
This time millions of viewers saw the event through their televisions, just like with the Kennedy assassination.
The assassination of the 35th President of the United States took place at 12:30 local time in Dealey Square while he was on tour with his wife, Jackie, and US Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
The country and the world community watches the murder live on television and freezes.
Within hours, Vice President Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president of the United States, aboard Air Force One, with Jackie at his side, expressionless and with her husband’s blood on her clothes.
Today is the 60th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy
While his death was tragic, it was needed as it paved the way for civil rights, income equality and other policies supported by him but pushed and passed by LBJ. pic.twitter.com/QvgIkVx7Lu
—Mr. Fernando Social Democracy 🇺🇸🇵🇷 (@SocDemMDler) November 22, 2022
Kennedy’s body was flown the same day from Dallas to Washington by the presidential plane. On November 24, the body was carried, accompanied by honors from all branches of the Armed Forces and under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of people who gathered along Pennsylvania Avenue, to the United States Capitol for a popular pilgrimage.
Kennedy’s funeral was held on November 25 from St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., and the 35th president of the United States of America was interred at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, before the largest gathering of dignitaries in U.S. history. .
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