Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination murder charge, reportedly on orders from someone in the White House.) On November 24, 1963, at 11:21 a.m. CST, before live television cameras, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and mortally wounded in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters by a local nightclub owner with alleged mafia ties, Jack Ruby. Unconscious, Oswald was put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where doctors tried to save the life of John F. Kennedy two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 pm. The state funeral took place in Washington, DC during the three days that followed the assassination.
Pictures of the Pain "That Day In Dallas", was published in 1998. The year before, Trask appeared before the Assassination Records Review Board, where he offered prepared comments on the many images compiled for his books. John F. Kennedy (JFK) was shot dead in 1963, when Richard B. Trask was 16 years old. Trask wrote that he was like most people, unable to understand how "seemingly unremarkable nobody" Lee Harvey Oswald could succeed in assassinating a President of the United States, so Trask set out to learn as much as he could. He found that a photographic study of the assassination was lacking within