On this day, Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed as his motorcade drove through Dallas.
At 12:30 p.m., a bullet struck Kennedy in the back and another killed him with a final shot to the head. Texas Gov. John B. Connally, who also rode in the presidential limousine, was seriously wounded.
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The shooter, according to government investigations, was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned.
Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were fired, was arrested on suspicion of killing Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit and later connected to the assassination.
Oswald denied shooting anyone, claiming he was a patsy.
Two days later, while being transferred from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was shot and mortally wounded by Jack Ruby on live television.
Conspiracy theories arose soon after Kennedy’s death and continue to persist today.
– Scott McCabe
