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
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,