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
Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture assassination. French director Henri Verneuil's 1979 movie "I as in Icarus" (the story is based in a fictional country with fictional characters but the events are clearly linked with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including amateur footage similar to the Zapruder film) The 1983 NBC TV mini series "Kennedy", which focuses on the Kennedy Presidency, showed the assassination in graphic detail. In the 1984 movie "Flashpoint", a United States Border Patrol agent finds a car containing the body of a man he believed participated in a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy and was murdered and robbed of the money