Assassination of John F. Kennedy or completely stop, the Warren Commission — based on the Zapruder film — found that the limousine had traveled an average speed of 11.2 miles per hour over the 186 ft of Elm Street immediately preceding the fatal head shot. Within one second of each other, President Kennedy, Governor Connally, and Mrs. Kennedy all turned abruptly from looking to their left to looking to their right, between Zapruder film frames 155 and 169. Connally, like the President, was a World War II military veteran but unlike him, a longtime hunter. Connally testified that he immediately recognized the sound as that
Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination is reached this evening by the White House to accept the invitation to the Albert Thomas dinner in Houston and turn it into a 2 day political trip encompassing all the major cities of Texas. Although Kennedy had wanted to visit Texas at some point, he had not planned to go at this particular time. But because of the invitation to speak at the Appreciation Dinner in Houston for Albert Thomas on November 21, 1963, the President decided to time his visit to Texas around that event instead of at some later date. September 25, 1963: Late that evening White