By: Ashley 

While in a parade on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was in Dallas for three reasons: to help raise more money for Democratic Party, to begin his job of hoping to get re-elected, and because he had barely won Texas and had lost Dallas in 1960. During the parade, right after the president’s car went around the corner three shots were fired. The theory is that one bullet totally missed the car, one hit JFK in the upper back, and one possibly hit JFK in the neck, went out, and hit Governor Connally. Seconds later, JFK looked like he bent over, and then they saw that he lay lifeless. As soon as they noticed this, they rushed him off to Parkland Memorial Hospital. It was not until 1pm that he was pronounced dead. At that time, Lee Harvey Oswald, was just being charged with the killing of a police officer. Soon after that they find out he was the one who shot JFK and the police charged him with murder of the president because there was no such thing as an assassination charge at that time. Now that the president was assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn to the oath of office on Air Force One at the time of 2:38 PM CST.  Only, two days later while being moved from city to county jail, a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, pulled out a gun and shot Oswald in the chest. He was rushed to the same hospital that JFK was in just two days before. Later, Oswald died.  To this day there are many different beliefs of the assassination of our former president John F. Kennedy.

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