Kennedys Arrive in Dallas Before Tragic Death
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Love Field Dallas flanked by Governor John Connally. Crowds line downtown streets as the motorcade proceeds toward the Trade Mart. Moments later the nation learns the president is fatally wounded.
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JFK Assassination Echoes Through Dallas Streets
Reported in Dealy Plaza shots fatally strike President John F Kennedy in the neck and head. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested later at the Texas Theater. The 35th President is pronounced dead at p.m., sending shock across the nation.
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Johnson Takes Oath Aboard Air Force One
The president’s body was moved from a Dallas hospital and boarded on Air Force One. At 2 38 p.m. Judge Sarah Hughes administers the oath of office to Lyndon Johnson aboard the plane.
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Dallas Nightclub Owner Shoots Oswald Live TV
Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, shoots Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. Oswald dies at Parkland Hospital. John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's casket on Pennsylvania Avenue as hundreds of thousands bid farewell to the 35th president.
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Kennedy's casket brought to White House East Room
Kennedy's casket is placed in the East Room as honor guards receive the body. Friends and family gather for a private mass at 10 30 a m. Thousands file through the Capitol Rotunda to pay respects while Jackie Kennedy and Caroline kneel beside the president's casket.
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United States Air Force B-52 and KC-135 High-Alert Flyoff
Jerry L. Jones recalls November 22 1963 at Amarillo Air Force Base when 33 B-52s and 33 KC-135s roared off the runway in quick succession after lunch break on the day President Kennedy was shot. The mass takeoff showcased Cold War readiness and the rapid generation of air power for DEW Line patrols across Canada and Alaska.
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Births and tragedy mark Baytown memories of 1963
Yslita Brewer recalls delivering a daughter on November 19 1963 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital while watching news of President Kennedy’s assassination. Her sister-in-law delivered a son on November 22 1963 at Gulf Coast Hospital as Kennedy died. One born, one died, a poignant family moment.
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Baytown cleaner recalls day Kennedy was shot
R Minter of Minter Drive-In Cleaners on Market Street recounts being at Baytown City Hall when a driver announced President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. He and attorney George Chandler discussed the shocking moment before returning to work at the cleaning shop as news filled the radio.
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Memorial Moment Marked By Tears At Home
A young wife and mother recalls a sad day as her family watched news of a major event while she cried at home on East Republic Street. Her husband Don stopped at K Mart for coffee and called home to share the grim bulletin as their 5-year-old son and 3 42-year-old daughter played nearby.
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JFK Assassination Reverberates Through Airman POV
A Keesler AFB airman recalls the moment Kennedy was shot and the nation’s shock. He notes Kennedy’s death, Johnson’s swift oath on Air Force One, and the sense of permanent change in America amid Cold War references and Vietnam casualties.
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Dayton Woman Messages on Kennedy's Passing
Jean E. Smith of Dayton reflects on a sad day for America following Kennedy's death, noting ongoing sorrow and seeking divine mercy for the nation.
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Memories of a 1963 Wiesbaden lockdown during JFK assassination
A Dallas family stationed in Wiesbaden in 1963 recalls a base lockdown as news broke of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The writer, then a high school junior, describes fears, travel, and the era's shared shock, noting how the event left a lasting impression amid overseas life and friendships with Germans.
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Cast and crew soldier through Dallas assassination day
The Mr. Roberts troupe rehearsed in Jefferson Texas an abandoned synagogue when news of the Dallas assassination stunned them. Dr Curtis L Pope East Texas State University insisted they perform then watched the broadcast with host Dan Mendoza at Lee College.
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Lee College
Fragmented memory of a high school student after a tragedy
A sixteen year old recalls the disbelief after news of a president's death, the rush of early dismissal at Robert E. Lee High School, the shock of Oswald's murder, and days spent without memory or feeling, recognizing life would never be the same.
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Silent Campus Day Recalled By Baylor Senior
A Baylor University senior recounts a campus day of total silence after a tragedy. The memory centers on the quiet atmosphere, with Mary Jane Ethridge of Baytown noted in the account.
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Baylor University
Mary Jane Ethridge
Baytown
Remembering JFK Death in Berlin and Global Tension
Gay Young recalls the shock of John F Kennedy's assassination in West Berlin. Germans mourned openly as fear of Soviet and East German forces loomed and U S dependents faced possible evacuation. Candlelight glow marked the night, a lasting memory of a torn era.
Memory of a Quail Crash and JFK News
Bert Marshall recalls a Friday trip from Ann Arbor to Dundee Michigan when a quail struck the grill of their 1959 Ford wagon. The crash startled mother and child as a radio announcement reported John F. Kennedy's assassination, leaving a lasting, shared memory.
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Baytown
Principal announces presidential shooting in class
In Burnett Elementary sixth grade, Principal Leon Legler burst into the room to say the president had been shot. Pat Blackburn's class at Burnett Elementary heard the brief, unsettled news from Cliff McKee in Baytown.
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Burnett Elementary
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Baytown
Fort Worth High School link to JFK assassination
The narrator aboard a Pacific Fleet amphibious ship recalls hearing the President's assassination announced at 0430. He notes the later revelation that the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had studied at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, linking the event to his hometown.
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Baytown
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