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,
Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination House sources, in an exclusive to the "Dallas Morning News", announce that the President will visit Texas November 21–22, 1963 and it will include Dallas. September 26, 1963: The "Dallas Morning News" is the first newspaper that announces the visit to Texas by President Kennedy in an article covering the President's conservation tour in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. September 27, 1963: Lee Oswald arrives in Mexico City and registers at the Hotel del Comercio. He visits the Cuban Consulate three times in an attempt to secure a visa to Cuba and also the Soviet Embassy to obtain a visa from them