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
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