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Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination
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President John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Nellie Connally, and Governor
John Connally, minutes before the assassination
This article considers the detailed timeline of events before, during,
and after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of
the United States.
Contents
1 Timeline
2 Prelude
3 President Kennedy's Texas trip schedule
3.1 Thursday, November 21
3.2 Friday, November 22
4 November 22: Arrival in Dallas
4.1 Motorcade vehicles and personnel
5 Presidential motorcade route
5.1 12:30 p.m. (CST): Shots are fired
6 Immediate aftermath
6.1 Lee Harvey Oswald
6.2 President Kennedy
7 Breaking the news
7.1 Locally in Dallas
7.2 Other stations
7.2.1 CBS Radio affiliates KNX, WCCO, and WCBS
7.2.2 NBC radio affiliate WLW in Cincinnati
7.2.3 NBC radio affiliate WTIC in Hartford
7.2.4 WGN in Chicago
7.2.5 WGBH-FM/Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert
7.3 Nationally
8 Television and radio coverage (from approx. 2:00 to 2:40 p.m. EST)
8.1 ABC
8.2 CBS
8.2.1 CBS Radio
8.2.2 CBS TV
8.3 NBC
8.4 KLIF Radio, Dallas
9 Return to Washington
10 Charges laid on Oswald
11 References
12 External links
Timeline
November 22, 1963
11:20 a.m. CST: Air Force One departs Carswell Air Force Base in Fort
Worth, Texas for Dallas, Texas.[1]
11:35 a.m. CST: Air Force Two arrives at Love Field in Dallas.[1][2]
11:38 a.m. CST: Air Force One arrives at Love Field in Dallas.[2]
11:44 a.m. CST:The Kennedys and Connallys disembark Air Force One and
are greeted by the Johnsons.[1]
11:55 a.m. CST: The motorcade leaves Love Field for its 10-mile trip
through downtown Dallas.[2]
12:30 p.m. CST: Shots are fired as the motorcade passes the Texas School
Book Depository.[2]
12:34 p.m. CST: The first United Press International bulletin clears the
wire stating: "Three shots were fired today at the president?s motorcade
in downtown Dallas."[2]
12:36 p.m. CST: Kennedy's limousine arrives at Parkland Memorial
Hospital.[2]
12:40 p.m. CST: Airing the first national report of the shooting on
television, CBS breaks into the live soap opera As the World Turns with
a bulletin from Walter Cronkite.[2]
12:45 p.m. CST: Dan Rather of CBS calls Parkland Memorial Hospital; a
doctor there tells him he believes Kennedy is dead.[2]
1:16 p.m. CST: Kennedy is pronounced dead.[2]
1:16 p.m. CST: The first report that Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit
has been shot.[2]
1:26 p.m. CST: Lyndon Johnson departs Parkland Memorial Hospital for
Love Field.[2]
1:33 p.m. CST: White House Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff
announces at Parkland Memorial Hospital that Kennedy is dead.[2]
1:38 p.m. CST: Cronkite delivers the news on CBS TV that Kennedy is dead
and that Johnson will be sworn in as the United States' 36th President.[2]
1:51 p.m. CST: Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested at the Texas Theater in
Dallas.[2]
2:10 p.m. CST: Abraham Zapruder arrives at WFAA-TV in Dallas and is
interviewed about his film of the assassination.[2]
2:13 p.m. CST: Police find the weapon used to kill the president on the
6th floor of the Texas School Book depository.[2]
2:38 p.m. CST: Johnson is sworn in as President by Federal Judge Sarah
Hughes on Air Force One.[2]
2:46 p.m. CST: Air Force One departs Love Field for Washington, D.C.[2]
Prelude
A presidential visit to the state of Texas was first agreed upon by Lyndon
B. Johnson, President John F. Kennedy's vice president, and Texas native,
and by Governor John Connally while all three men were together in a
meeting in El Paso on June 5, 1963.[3] (In 1978 Connally testified to the
House Select Committee on Assassinations that in the spring of 1962 "Vice
President Johnson told me then that President Kennedy wanted to come to
Texas, he wanted to come to Texas to raise some money, have some
fund-raising affairs over the State.")
President Kennedy later decided to embark on the trip with three basic
goals in mind: the president wanted to help raise more Democratic Party
presidential campaign fund contributions;[3] he wanted to begin his quest
for reelection in November 1964;[4] and, because the Kennedy-Johnson
ticket had barely won Texas in 1960 (and had even lost in Dallas),
President Kennedy wanted to help mend political fences among several
leading Texas Democratic party members who appeared to be fighting
politically amongst themselves.[5]
President Kennedy's trip to Dallas was first announced to the public in
September 1963.[6] The exact motorcade route was finalized on November 18
and announced to the public a few days before November 22.[7]
During the third week of October 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald started working a
seasonal, full-time job at the Texas School Book Depository as a
$1.25/hour manual laborer, filling customer orders for books.[8] Oswald
had secured the job after a referral by Ruth Paine,[9] with whom Lee's
wife, Marina Oswald, and the Oswald children were living, after a marriage
separation.[10] Ruth had also separated from her husband, Michael Paine,
at about the same time.[11]
On October 24, 1963, when on a visit to Dallas to mark U.N. Day, U.N.
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was jeered, jostled, hit by a sign, and spat
upon.[12][13] Dallas Police were fearful that similar demonstrations were
going to happen to Kennedy when he visited Dallas.[14] Several people,
including Stevenson, warned JFK against coming to Dallas, but Kennedy
refused their advice.[5] Dallas Police, headed by chief Jesse Curry, did
increase the level of security during Kennedy's visit, putting into effect
the most stringent security precautions in the city's history.[14] Curry
even "deputized" citizens to take action for any suspicious acts that may
be pointed towards the president.[15] President Kennedy's Texas trip
schedule Thursday, November 21
San Antonio: Dedication speech for U.S. Air Force School of
Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base.
Houston: Testimonial dinner at the Rice Hotel, honoring
Congressman Albert Thomas.
Fort Worth: Arrival at Hotel Texas.
Friday, November 22
Fort Worth: Chamber of Commerce breakfast speech at Hotel Texas.
Dallas: Luncheon speech attended by Dallas Citizens Council,
Dallas Assembly and Graduate Research Center of the Southwest at Trade Mart.
Austin: Fundraising dinner speech at Municipal Auditorium.
Johnson City: Weekend of relaxation at Lyndon Johnson's ranch.
November 22: Arrival in Dallas
On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 11:40 a.m. CST, Kennedy, his wife
Jacqueline, and the rest of the presidential entourage arrived at Love
Field in northwest Dallas aboard Air Force One after a very short flight
from nearby Carswell Air Force Base, west of Fort Worth. The motorcade
cars had been lined up in a certain order earlier that morning. The
original schedule was for the president to proceed in a long motorcade
from Love Field through downtown Dallas, and end at the Dallas Business
and Trade Mart.
The motorcade was scheduled to enter Dealey Plaza at 12:10 p.m., followed
by a 12:15 p.m. arrival at the Dallas Business and Trade Mart so President
Kennedy could deliver a speech and share in a steak luncheon with Dallas
government, business, religious, and civic leaders and their spouses.
Invitations that were sent out specify a noon start time to the luncheon
while SS agent Lawson told Chief Curry that after arriving at Love Field
and leaving at 11:30 the 38- to 45-minute trip would get them to the Trade
Mart on time. Air Force One touched down at 11:39 a.m. and the
Presidential motorcade did not leave Love Field until approximately
fifteen minutes later.