Kennedy Administration - Post-presidential Years
Post-presidential Years
At 12:30 P.M., Friday, November 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by high-powered rifle fire. The largest mass experience in the nation's history, the news of the president's death simultaneously spread by radio and television to a profoundly shocked and disbelieving country. On November 24, the president's suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, a disgruntled leftist who had defected to the Soviet Union and then returned, was himself shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator, as a startled national television audience and scores of Dallas police officers looked on. An enormous emotional reaction reverberated for decades after Kennedy's assassination, sometimes manifesting itself in bizarre conspiracy theories about his death.
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was driving two cars behind President Kennedy when he was...
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