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
Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination to Mexico City in the hopes of somehow gaining entrance to Cuba where travel has been banned from the United States. September 24–28, 1963: President Kennedy embarks on an eleven-state conservation tour which include visits to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Utah, Oregon, California, and Nevada. September 24, 1963: At a press conference in Austin, Texas, Governor Connally announces he will visit Washington DC from October 2–4, 1963 and he hopes to see the President but he has no plans to invite him to visit Texas but that he would be delighted if he came. The decision