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
The Girl in the Limousine (play) the initial version of the play and offered it to producer Al Woods, who had previously produced "Up in Mabel's Room", a play Collison co-wrote with Otto Hauerbach. Woods gave it to Avery Hopwood for revisions. The play was initially titled "Betty's Bed", but was changed for production to "The Girl in the Limousine", despite the fact that no female character is in a limousine at any time during the story. The play's Broadway opening was at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on October 6, 1919. John Cumberland and Doris Kenyon starred as Tony and Betty. It ran on Broadway