The President Has Been Shot ! By James L. Swanson

On November 29, 1963, our 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. A young and vigorous leader who was a victim of the fourth Presidential assassination in the history of a country. This assassination was known as a world tragedy, and a great lost to our nation. Many conspiracies were formed while the investigation of his assassination was undergoing, making his case unsolved. But with the many conspiracies, the assassination caused a lot of effect on our country over the years. Making the JFK assassination a remarkable case.

Thirty-fifth president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. There campaigning for next year’s presidential election, he would have never expected to be assassinated while sitting in a motorcade, waving at the people who had congregated in the streets. The drop in the stock market, conspiracy theories, and dilemmas regarding social aspects of America were things that were affected after his assassination. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is the most controversial presidential assassination in American history.

This week I would write about one of the greatest conspiracies that the world has seen, and this is the assassination of John F Kennedy. The 35th President of the United States was shot the November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas at 12.30pm . He was fatally shot in his wife's car. The ten-month investigation concluded that the President had been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald that was founded dead while he was in police custody by Jack Ruby.

Who remembers where they were November 22, 1963? , The fateful day President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. My mother was only three and she remembers the day. She was in the living room of her childhood home when a crying neighbor called my Grandmother and broke the news. The telephone call was the beginning of a chain reaction that sent the entire house into uncontrollable mayhem. The event had that effect on the entire nation. Men and women, Democrats and Republicans, adults and children mourned the loss of their fallen leader.

The television coverage of the John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 and related events can be viewed as a significant environmental factor that resulted in a culture shift. After hearing the

It’s 12:30 pm and a huge, cheering crowd gathers around for the presidential motorcade. Three shots are fired, and an hour later the country’s beloved president is pronounced dead on national television. There have been many theories conspiring the president’s death. Was it a lone gunman or was it multiple? Where did the shots come from? Who did it? There is only one answer to the puzzle. Lee Harvey Oswald is the one responsible for John F Kennedy’s tragic death. The assassination of JFK by Oswald is proven by the physical evidence, the forensic evidence, and Oswald’s activity before and after the assassination.

Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader. The books are punchy. They are blunt and clear, not being burdened with an overload of pesky footnotes. But they do favor facts, and the more numerical the better. This book’s description of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas includes the numbers 156 (car wheelbase in inches); 350 (its horsepower); SS-100-X (the car’s Secret Service code name); 120 (degrees in the angle it must turn in Dealey Plaza); 12:33 (time when shots were fired); 14 (doctors attending to the dying president); and 12 (bloody red roses stuck to his body). All that’s missing is a partridge in a pear tree. Most of “Killing Kennedy” is immersive written in the present tense, with occasional prophetic, “little-does-he-know” glimpses of the future. It begins on Inauguration Day, when “the man with fewer than three years to live” has his left hand on the Bible. Little does he know that Chief Justice Earl Warren, who swears him in, has a name that “will one day be synonymous with Kennedy’s own death.” The authors are not content to say that Jan. 20, 1961, is a cold day. They must point out that “a brutal wind strafes the crowd.” And they are not content to remain in Washington; the book quickly switches to a “meanwhile” mention of the future gunman. “Approximately 4,500 miles away, in the Soviet city of Minsk, an American who did not vote for John F. Kennedy is fed up,” they write, massaging the fact that Oswald was at that point fed up with the Soviet government, not with America’s new president. The details of the Kennedy assassination are even more familiar than the story “Killing Lincoln” told. So “Killing Kennedy” has a momentum problem: it is lively, but not innately suspenseful. The authors combat that by packing in

On November 22nd, 1963 at 12:30 p.m in Dallas, Texas, one of the most horrific events in American History took place. The assassination of John F. Kennedy. Crowds were cheering as JFK was on a ten mile route that would pass through Dallas, Texas. John Kennedy was in the back seat of a 1961 four door Lincoln Continental convertible when this tragic event occurred. The driver took a left off of Main street passing by the Texas School Book Depository. Suddenly gun shots were heard, and John Kennedy took a bullet to the head and neck. John Kennedy was dead at the first impact of the bullet. As JFK was leaning on Ms.Kennedy another shot was fired, and it hit Governor John

How would you feel if you saw the 35th president of the United States get shot? On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy got shot in the neck and head, and he fell right next to his wife, Mrs. Kennedy. This assassination is not, and never will be, justified.

Bang! Three gunshots rang out when all attention was placed on the motionless body of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the united states, which his head has been severely wounded. The man most known for negotiating the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and initiated the Alliance for Progress was assassinated in front of the public in Dallas. He was killed as if it was a public execution with Henry Oswald, JFK’s assassin, as the executioner. This was one of the most devastating deaths in America. Most assassinations are done because of personal opinion on a person. However, former president, JFK, assassination was absolutely not an exception. JFK’s assassination was not justified for the reason is that he impacted America’s politics and lifestyle, he had big plans, and was killed without a clear motive.

Nearly everyone old enough to remember knows exactly what they were doing on November 22, 1963. The impingement of his death caused a public exigency for information, made television necessary and created an environment of information overload. Kennedy's assassination shocked the world. People were glued to their television screens as they observed a mixture of fact, speculation, and unfiltered drama as one of the most important events in history unfolded before their eyes.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." These few words are some of John F. Kennedy 's most famous; they were given in his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1961. He would serve, as some say, the most difficult presidential term, enduring the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs. He would also pass some of the most beneficial laws such as housing for the public, minimum wage policy, and social security. Unfortunately, his contributions would come to an end with his unexpected assassination. The mystery behind John F. Kennedy 's assassination can be summed up by two theories: the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, either acted alone or had accomplices.

What started as another ordinary day turned into a day many Americans will never forget. On the morning of November 22, 1963 many people gathered in downtown Dallas, Texas to see President John F. Kennedy ride through a parade. Many spectators watched as President JFK was shot. Since JFK’s death, 50 years ago, many conspiracy theories have evolved. 73% of all Americans believe that JFK was a victim of a conspiracy (Southwell).

While driving down the road in Dallas near the book depository a shot was fired at the president’s motorcade, sadly it struck the president in the head. His wife was seated next to him, tragically he did not make it, and President Johnson was sworn in as President. One of his first acts as president was to create a committee to investigate JFK’s assassination.

The last stop for Kennedy in Texas, and for his whole life, was Dallas. Dallas seemed to be the most aggressive out of any other region in the state towards the president and his administration. When arriving in the city that Kennedy thought of most importantly on November 22, he and his wife got into a limousine that banded together with two cars containing police and the Secret Service. Driving towards the Trade Mart, the people of Dallas seemed more friendly towards Kennedy than expected with positive signs being held up in the air and cheering of the crowds. After about half an hour into the car ride one of the most shocking moments in American history occurred when a fire of a gun was heard three times by the people near the limousine that contained the president. Kennedy was shot with his cranium seriously damaged by the impact (Parmet, pg. 345-346).