The assassination of JFK

On Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th president of the United States.

i was in high school geometry class when the word came... as it was a catholic high school, class was immediately dismissed and we all filed into the church next door... people were in shock for days... no one knew what to do or what to say... the tv set was left on, a rarity in our house... it seemed simply incomprehensible that this vital, dynamic, charismatic man was no longer with us... the mother of a friend of mine had come close to throwing me out of her house when i tried to convince her to support kennedy instead of nixon in the election and now, just like that, he was gone...

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