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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On November 22, 1963, US President Kennedy was assassinated
62 years ago today, November 22, 1963 (October 7, 1963 in the lunar calendar), US President Kennedy was assassinated. U.S. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade was shot while passing through the main commercial center of Dallas, Texas. On November 22, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in the southern United States. According to the American News Agency, Kennedy died of being shot in the head by the assassin with a rifle. At noon that day, he arrived in the city by plane for a visit. He then took a bus from the airport to downtown Dallas, where he was going to deliver a speech. The Kennedys and Texas Governor Connelly drove slowly through the welcoming crowd in a convertible car. As the motorcade drove past a building, three bullets were fired from a window on the fifth floor of the building, one of which hit Kennedy in the head and temple. Half an hour later, Kennedy died in the hospital. Governor Connelly, who was also in the car, was also shot twice and seriously injured. After Kennedy was shot, his security staff and police immediately acted in panic to find the assassin. They found a rifle with a sight and several shell casings next to it in a room in the building (the Texas School Library). Kennedy went to Dallas to give a speech to build support for the Democratic Party and his own re-election as president. Shortly after Kennedy's death, U.S. Vice President Johnson, who accompanied Kennedy on his visit, was sworn in as President of the United States. He held the oath of no interviews on a plane parked at the Dallas airport carrying Kennedy's body to Washington. After that, Johnson flew back to Washington on the U.S. president's special plane and immediately held discussions with several senior government officials, including Defense Secretary McNamara, Deputy Secretary of State Powell, White House National Security Advisor Bondi, etc. Johnson then convened a meeting of the leaders of both houses of Congress at midnight. He also had phone calls with some figures in the American ruling clique, former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, and also had contact with former President Hoover. U.S. Secretary of State Rusk and five other ministers from the Kennedy administration were on their way to Japan to hold Japan-US economic talks on the 22nd. After learning the news that Kennedy was assassinated on the plane, they immediately turned around and flew back to the United States. According to the U.S. Information Service, Kennedy was killed by a rifle bullet while driving through downtown Dallas. Texas Governor Connery, who was riding with Kennedy, was also injured. At 3:38 p.m., Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One. Standing next to him was a stunned Jacqueline Kennedy, still stained with blood. Nine minutes later, the plane took off for Andrews Airport in Washington. The flight lasted less than two and a half hours. Johnson delivered his first televised speech as president at Andrews Airport and then took a helicopter to the White House. Kennedy's entourage followed the coffin to Bethesda Hospital, waiting for a midnight autopsy. At 4:34 a.m. the next morning, the coffin covered in an American flag was brought into the White House and parked on the coffin rack in the East Room. Mrs. Kennedy knelt next to it, her face buried deep in the stars on the Stars and Spangled Banner. Research from the University of Chicago pointed out that the average adult spent 10 hours in front of the TV on Saturday, reaching the peak of TV viewing time on weekends. However, they did not learn much about the situation. The body was still parked in the East Room; Kennedy's family, friends and senior government officials all went there to express condolences. On Sunday, the coffin was placed on a horse-drawn gun cart and walked down Pennsylvania Avenue, with an unridden horse walking in front of it and a pair of upside-down leather boots in the stirrups, symbolizing a dead chief. Meanwhile, news came from Dallas of an unbelievable new atrocity. While being transferred to another prison, Lee Harvey Oswald was fatally shot by a Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby. The murder was committed in front of 70 Dallas police officers wearing glasses. Since NBC was broadcasting the live transfer of criminals at the time, it became the first live broadcast of a murder scene on a TV program. When the president's widowed wife returned to the White House, she was told of the murder. She called it "a more terrible thing." On Monday, the coffin was transported by cannon to St. Matthew's Cathedral for a funeral Mass, and from there to Arlington National Cemetery. Delegations from 92 countries headed by Charles de Gaulle came to attend the funeral letter. They later attended two receptions, one at the State Department and a much smaller one at the White House, where Mrs. Kennedy went to receive them. Even if it was over here, although in a sense the weekend never ended; years later, people are still trying to explore its profound significance, which is one of the most important events in American history or in the history of any other country. Much later, Americans would tell each other how they first heard the news from Dallas, how they felt about Mrs. Kennedy's request to place ten-year-old fire in front of the grave, and when John Jr. saluted his father's coffin. Even so, people still have to associate it with their own lives. The most obvious way is to name it after the president. Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy. Edverd International Airport has also been renamed. The National Cultural Center was renamed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Treasury Department began minting 50 million Kennedy half dollars-but they couldn't keep them in regular circulation because people wanted to keep them as souvenirs. Various committees across the country unanimously approved changing local place names to pay tribute to the president. Soon, Jacqueline Kennedy discovered if she would one day take a car "down a Kennedy Highway and head to Kennedy Airport to visit a Kennedy High School." This situation has been affecting foreign countries. Canada has its Mount Kennedy-the first person to climb the mountain was Robert Kennedy. The most prominent was Britain, which set aside three acres of historic grassland where the Magna Carta was signed in Rennymede to serve as the Kennedy Altar. Related reports: On May 20, 1992, the post-mortem pathologist broke the 28-year silence-Kennedy was killed by a gunman with two bullets. On May 20, 1992, according to Dr. George Rundberg, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, at a press conference held in New York on the 19th, he revealed that after personally interviewing two pathologists who had dissected the body of the assassinated President Kennedy, the conclusion he reached was: The president was killed by two bullets fired from behind and above, fired by a gunman using a rifle. Rundgren severely attacked conspiracy theorists, saying: "They are trying to use a president to gain fame or profit from it. Until the 1991 movie premiere of "The Murder of Kennedy", many people believed that Kennedy was assassinated in a conspiracy. James Humes and Thornton Boswell, two pathologists who had dissected Kenddy's body, broke a silence of more than 28 years and said: "There is no evidence that a third bullet hit Kennedy, nor is there any evidence that any bullet came from beyond Kennedy's back. They deny that their original report was tampered with by any senior official, that they were pressured to change the conclusions they made at the time, and that Kennedy's body was tampered with before the autopsy. Humes and Boswell clarified the above allegations made by conspiracy theorists. The two pathologists supported the conclusions of the official Warren Commission's investigation into the assassination. The two pathologists, who were doctors at Bosedamm Naval Hospital outside Washington, conducted a four-hour autopsy after Kennedy's body was transported to the hospital. On November 22, 1963, while Kennedy's motorcade was traveling on the street to inspect Dallas, a gunman named Lee Harvey Oswalton shot Kennedy in the back of the head from a window of a building on the street. Most Americans are distrustful of the Warren Commission's findings, which are official. Nor is it believed that Oswalton's murder was an independent act of an individual. Commentators here say it is hard to predict how much corroborative the review in the journal of the american medical association will be as u. s. officials prepare to release some of the material on kennedy's murder. The president was shot in the head and neck and fell forward. Mrs. Kennedy held her husband in her arms and drove quickly to Parkland Hospital. Kennedy's funeral was held in Washington, D.C. on November 25. The number of foreign heads of state attending the funeral was the largest in U.S. history. Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by a nightclub owner named Jack Ruby. President Kennedy was assassinated. Vice President Johnson was immediately sworn in as President of the United States. On his left is the remains of Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, US President Kennedy News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1cxz.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.12-10:25] 访问:76
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