1963: Assassin's bullet kills President Kennedy

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, died after being shot in Dallas at 1p.m. (6p.m. British time). Police held as chief suspect Lee Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting Kennedy, was himself shot and killed whilst being held in at Dallas County Jail.In 1963, President Johnson set up the Warren Commission to investigate the President's assassination, and it concluded that only Oswald fired the fatal shots. Oswald's motives for shooting the ...

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