Presidency of John F. Kennedy Don Yarborough and conservative John Connally. Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas with Jackie Kennedy, Connally, and Connally's wife, Nelly, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck. He was taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment, but was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm. Hours after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, an order filler at the Texas School Book Depository, was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, and was subsequently charged with Kennedy's assassination. Oswald denied the charges, but was killed by strip-club owner Jack Ruby on November 24. Ruby claimed to have
Marina Oswald Porter Marina Oswald Porter Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; ; born July 17, 1941) is the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She married Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Union and emigrated to the United States with him. She was not implicated in the assassination and remarried two years after Oswald's murder. Porter was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russian SFSR. She lived there with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk to live with her uncle