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
Foreign military units at the state funeral of John Kennedy Balcony with his children John Kennedy, Jr. and Caroline Kennedy. According to some accounts, Jacqueline Kennedy later remarked it was the last time she had seen the president happy before his death. The band was still in the United States at the time of the assassination, having just completed a performance in Knoxville, Tennessee. Jacqueline Kennedy requested their participation in the funeral procession, a request which was accommodated by eight pipers and a Pipe Major. The contingent was the twenty-fourth element of 32 that made-up the procession. During the state visit of the United States to Ireland in June 1963,