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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:...

Nov 22, 2023

🚨President Kennedy Seriously Wounded by Gunshot in Dallas

Nov. 22, 1963 - President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by a gunshot in Dallas, Texas — perhaps fatally. Texas Governor John B....

Nov 22, 2023

🚨Shots Fired at President

Nov. 22, 1963 - At 12:34 p.m. Central Standard Time, United Press International flashed the following sentence to its network of...

Nov 22, 2023

[VIDEO] Nov. 22, 1963 - President and Mrs. Kennedy Arrive at Love Field, Dallas

Nov. 22, 1963 - President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and Mrs. Connally arrived at Love Field, Dallas’s airport,...

Nov 22, 2023

[VIDEO] Nov. 22, 1963 | JFK Remarks at Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Breakfast

Nov. 22, 1963 - President Kennedy spoke this morning at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast at The Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. But the star of...

Nov 22, 2023

Nov. 22, 1963 | JFK Remarks in Parking Lot of Texas Hotel, Fort Worth

Nov. 22, 1963 - President Kennedy, who spent last night at The Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, delivered a speech this morning to a crowd of...

Nov 21, 2023

President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson Land at Carswell Air Force Base

Nov. 21, 1963 - President Kennedy and his party jetted down out of the darkness at Carswell Air Force Base at 11:07 p.m. tonight to begin...

Nov 21, 2023

[VIDEO] Nov. 21, 1963 | President and Mrs. Kennedy Remarks to Latin American Citizens

Nov. 21, 1963 - Jacqueline Kennedy tonight capped a day of handshaking and politicking for her husband with a speech in almost-flawless...

Nov 21, 2023

President Kennedy Visits San Antonio, Flies to Houston

Nov. 21, 1963 - President Kennedy mixed a strong defense of his space program with some old-fashioned, earthbound politics today as he...

Nov 21, 2023

Robert Stroud, “Birdman of Alcatraz,” Is Dead

Nov. 21, 1963 - Robert Stroud (pictured in 1938), the convicted murderer who became known as the “Birdman of Alcatraz,” died in his sleep...

Nov 21, 2023

White House Luncheon for Hollywood Elite Scheduled for December 10

Nov. 21, 1963 - Hollywood’s most frantic social scramble of the year is now under way to win an invitation to a White House luncheon on...

Nov 21, 2023

Robert Kennedy to Stay Attorney General but “Plans Could Change”

Nov. 21, 1963 - Robert F. Kennedy said today he planned to remain in his Attorney General’s post. There had been reports he would resign...

Nov 21, 2023

New Order for Silver Dollars

Nov. 21, 1963 - The United States Mint is getting ready to crank out 50 million silver dollars — the first to be struck in 28 years. The...

Nov 21, 2023

President Kennedy to Present Oppenheimer with Fermi Award Dec. 2

Nov. 21, 1963 - Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (pictured in 1946) will formally receive the Enrico Fermi award from President Kennedy at the...