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...
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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:...
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