The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, took place in Dallas, Texas. He was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy in a Presidential motorcade. The ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations, and other government investigations concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Just before 12:30 pm, Kennedy’s limousine entered Dealey Plaza and slowly approached the Texas School Book Depository head-on. When the Presidential limo turned and passed the Depository and continued down Elm Street, shots were fired at Kennedy with the great majority of witnesses recalling hearing three shots. Governor Connally, riding in the same limo, was also critically injured but survived. The staff at Parkland Hospital’s Trauma Room who treated Kennedy observed that he had no chance of survival and was pronounced dead at 1 pm.
The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, none of which have been proven. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. It also concluded that at least four shots were fired and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed.
