It's November 22nd. 🇺🇸 On this day in 1963, US President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy was assassinated. First Lady Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife were riding in a convertible with President Kennedy as their motorcade drove through the streets of downtown Dallas, Texas.
As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46.
Less than an hour later, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his rooming house in Dallas. Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theater. On November 24th, as Oswald was escorted to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters, a crowd gathered. As Oswald entered the room, Jack Ruby emerged and fatally wounded him with his gun. Ruby, who had minor connections to organized crime, was immediately detained. He claimed that rage motivated his action, but many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy.
In 1964, the official Warren Commission report concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy. It didn't silence the conspiracy theorists, though. In 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. The committee’s findings, as with those of the Warren Commission, continue to be disputed. ☮️ R.I.P, Jack… #Jamiese of #Pixoplanet
