Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination Houston Street and slowly approached the Texas School Book Depository head-on. According to witnesses, the shooting occurred shortly after the limousine made the sharp left-hand turn from Houston onto Elm Street. Most of the witnesses recalled that the first shot was fired after the president had started waving with his right hand. Several onlookers recalled hearing three shots, with the second and third shots bunched distinctly much closer together than the first and second shots. Witnesses estimate that from three to eight shots were fired. The Zapruder film shows the President re-emerging in the footage after being temporarily hidden from
Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination House sources, in an exclusive to the "Dallas Morning News", announce that the President will visit Texas November 21–22, 1963 and it will include Dallas. September 26, 1963: The "Dallas Morning News" is the first newspaper that announces the visit to Texas by President Kennedy in an article covering the President's conservation tour in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. September 27, 1963: Lee Oswald arrives in Mexico City and registers at the Hotel del Comercio. He visits the Cuban Consulate three times in an attempt to secure a visa to Cuba and also the Soviet Embassy to obtain a visa from them