Assassination of John F. Kennedy

The fatal shooting of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, during a motorcade through Dealey Plaza.

Dealey Plaza: A public square in downtown Dallas where Kennedy was shot during a motorcade. The motorcade passed through this square when the shots struck Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy's 1963 Texas trip: A November 1963 political journey by Kennedy through several Texas cities, including Dallas. The Dallas motorcade was one stop on this trip, intended partly to ease tensions among Texas Democrats.
Lyndon B. Johnson: The U.S. vice president who became president after Kennedy's death. Johnson took the oath aboard Air Force One in Dallas shortly after the assassination.
United States House Select Committee on Assassinations findings: The 1979 conclusions of a congressional committee that Kennedy was probably killed as part of a conspiracy. Its probable-conspiracy conclusion differed from the Warren Commission's lone-gunman finding.
Texas School Book Depository: A former Dallas warehouse overlooking Dealey Plaza, later identified as the site from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired. The Warren Commission placed Oswald's rifle in a sixth-floor window here.
Kennedy motorcade route in Dallas: The planned Dallas street route taken by Kennedy's presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963. Its turn through Dealey Plaza brought the limousine past the Depository.
Presidential succession in the United States: The constitutional and statutory process for transferring presidential authority when a president cannot serve. Kennedy's death tested the succession process, transferring the presidency to Johnson.
Acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination: Sound recordings examined to determine the number and timing of shots fired in Dealey Plaza. A disputed analysis of police radio sounds helped drive the congressional committee's conspiracy conclusion.
Lee Harvey Oswald: A former U.S. Marine accused of killing Kennedy and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Authorities identified Oswald as the gunman; he was killed before trial.
Parkland Memorial Hospital: A hospital in Dallas where Kennedy was taken after being shot and pronounced dead. Doctors treated Kennedy there, while Texas governor John Connally survived his wounds.

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