Question

I need help with a 3 page paper on JFK's assisnation

Answer 1

John F. Kennedy's murder, the fatal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963, as he was riding a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. His accused murderer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US citizen. Marine who had followed Communism and defected to the Soviet Union for some time. Oswald never stood trial for murder, since he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a drunken Dallas nightclub owner, while being moved after being taken into custody.

On 21 November 1963, President Kennedy conducted a two-day, five-city fund-raising trip to Texas, joined by his father, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Vice President Johnson. The trip was also possibly conceived as an attempt to help put a feuding Democratic Party together in a state that was crucial to Kennedy's 1964 reelection chances. While Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a moderate figure, had been confronted a month earlier by highly agitated demonstrators during a visit to Dallas a city with a right-wing press and the locus of much anti-Kennedy sentiment the president was warmly greeted at his first two stops, San Antonio and Houston, as well as at Fort Worth where the presidential party spent the night of November 21.

Kennedy was hit in the back of the head by another bullet. The motorcade sped to nearby Parkland Memorial Hospital and soon reached it; however, attempts by doctors were futile. Kennedy was pronounced formally dead at 1:00 PM. Connally survived his injuries.