President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 PM in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. He was riding with his wife Jacqueline
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 PM in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. He was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife, Nellie. He was fatally shot by former United States Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fascinating facts about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
1. On November 11, 1963, President Kennedy laid a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. He would be buried at the cemetery exactly 2 weeks later.
2. Jacqueline Kennedy rarely travelled with John on political trips, but decided to fly with him to Texas on November 21, 1963.
3. Kennedy would likely have survived the assassination if he wasn’t wearing a back brace. The brace kept him in place after being shot the first time, letting Oswald take a second shot to his head.
4. A month before being killed, Kennedy created a fake James Bond home movie that depicted his own shooting.
5. Kennedy survived a previous assassination attempt 2 months before his inauguration. He was targeted by Richard Pavlick who was a 73 year old man that hated Catholics. He planned to crash his dynamite filled car into Kennedy while he was vacationing in Palm Beach. However, he changed his mind when he saw Kennedy with his wife and child.
6. Both Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were shot in the head on a Friday. Their assassins were both Southern and they were both succeeded by Southern presidents.
7. The assassination of John F. Kennedy led to the first and only time a woman swore in a United States president. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in by Sarah T. Hughes, who was a federal judge from Texas that was appointed by Kennedy.
8. 6 months before the assassination, Oswald tried to kill retired Army general Edwin Walker with the same gun he killed Kennedy with. Walker was a far right political activist who was dismissed from the military by the Kennedy administration.
9. According to a poll taken the week after Kennedy was killed, 90 million citizens admitted to having had cried.
10. Jackie Kennedy refused to take off her pink Chanel outfit that was stained with her husband’s