Assassination of John F. Kennedy President Kennedy as his motorcade continued down Elm Street. About 80% of the witnesses recalled hearing three shots. A minority of the witnesses recognized the first gunshot they heard as weapon fire, but there was hardly any reaction to the first shot from a majority of the people in the crowd or those riding in the motorcade. Many bystanders later said that they heard what they first thought to either be a firecracker or the backfire of one of the vehicles shortly after the President had begun waving. Although some close witnesses recalled seeing the limousine slow down, nearly stop,
Ledge of the president John-Fitzgerald-Kennedy Ledge of the president John-Fitzgerald-Kennedy The ledge of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (locally dubbed "La Corniche") is a Marseille boulevard that runs along the Mediterranean Sea from the beach at Catalans to the beaches of Prado. It is named after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the United States president assassinated in 1963. Starting as a simple path, the cornice developed in two stages in the nineteenth century. From 1954 to 1968 , the municipality of Gaston Defferre expanded the cornice. It overlooks the Mediterranean and its islands. Along it are fishermen's barracks, nineteenth century villas (Villa Valmer and ), hotels, restaurants