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Nov 23, 2023

Oswald Faces Death Penalty in Texas if Convicted

Nov. 23, 1963 - The assassination of a President is not covered by Federal law, according to the Justice Department. Lee Harvey Oswald...

Nov 23, 2023

JFK’s Body in Closed, Flag-Draped Coffin in East Room of White House

Nov. 23, 1963 - The body of John Fitzgerald Kennedy lay in repose today in a closed, flag-draped coffin in the East Room of the White...

Nov 23, 2023

Khrushchev Offers Condolences to U.S. on Death of President Kennedy

Nov. 23, 1963 - A grim-faced Premier Nikita Khrushchev today led most of the Communist world in offering condolences to the United States...

Nov 23, 2023

🚨Lee Harvey Oswald Formally Charged with Assassinating President Kennedy

Nov. 23, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old warehouse worker who once lived in the Soviet Union, was formally charged at 1:35 a.m....

Nov 22, 2023

Truman on Assassination: “I Am Shocked Beyond Words”

Nov. 22, 1963 - Former President Harry S. Truman, himself an intended victim of assassins’ bullets thirteen years ago this month, said...

Nov 22, 2023

New Yorkers Express Shock and Dismay over President Kennedy’s Assassination

Nov. 22, 1963 - The cry rang across New York City, echoing again and again: “Is it true? Is it true?” Another cry quickly took its place...

Nov 22, 2023

In Los Angeles, Grief and Revulsion over Assassination

Nov. 22, 1963 - In Los Angeles this afternoon, grief and revulsion were the reaction to President Kennedy’s assassination. From Mayor to...

Nov 22, 2023

TV Networks Alter Programming in Wake of Assassination

Nov. 22, 1963 - Television and radio stations in the New York metropolitan area announced today the temporary cancellation of many...

Nov 22, 2023

[VIDEO] Nov. 22, 1963 | Speaker McCormack Statement on JFK Assassination

Nov. 22, 1963 - Disbelief, shock, tears, and finally outrage were Congress’ reactions today to the assassination of President Kennedy....

Nov 22, 2023

Oswald Charged with Murder of Dallas Policeman

Nov. 22, 1963 - At 7:04 p.m. Central Standard Time, Captain J.W. Fritz of the Homicide and Robbery Bureau of the Dallas Police Department...

Nov 22, 2023

President Kennedy’s Body Taken to Naval Hospital at Bethesda

Nov. 22, 1963 - After the Presidential jet landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland at 5:58 p.m., the coffin containing President...

Nov 22, 2023

Oswald Interrogation Transcript

Nov. 22, 1963 - Captain John William Fritz of the Homicide and Robbery Bureau of the Dallas Police Department conducted the initial...

Nov 22, 2023

Johnson’s First Call as President Is to President Kennedy’s Mother

Nov. 22, 1963 - From Air Force One in flight, 28 minutes after the Presidential plane left Dallas, Lyndon B. Johnson made his first...

Nov 22, 2023

🚨Lyndon B. Johnson Sworn In as 35th President of the United States

Nov. 22, 1963 - Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was riding in the third car behind the late President John F. Kennedy’s car in...

Nov 22, 2023

🚨Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, Suspected in Assassination of President and Murder of Dallas Policeman

🚨Nov. 22, 1963 - A suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and in the murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit has...

Nov 22, 2023

🚨Suspect in Murder of Dallas Policeman Arrested at Texas Movie Theater

Nov. 22, 1963 - A suspect in the murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit was apprehended at 1:50 p.m. Central Standard Time in the...

Nov 22, 2023

John F. Kennedy Fourth President To Be Assassinated

Nov. 22, 1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the fourth President of the United States to be killed by an assassin. Two other Presidents...

Nov 22, 2023

🚨President Kennedy Is Dead

Nov. 22, 1963 - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died today of a wound in the brain caused by a bullet fired at him as he was riding...

Nov 22, 2023

Dallas Police Officer Murdered in Dallas; Possible Connection to Shooting of President

Nov. 22, 1963 - Officer J.D. Tippit, an Army veteran of World War II and an 11-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department, was shot...

Nov 22, 2023

🚨Report of President’s Death Not Officially Confirmed

🚨Nov. 22, 1963 - Eddie Barker, news director of CBS’s Dallas affiliate KRLD, reported the following at 1:16 p.m. Central Standard Time:...