Assassination of John F. Kennedy

From the Library of Congress

  This picture was taken in Novmber 22nd of 1963 in Texas, few minutes before the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. He was shot during his presidential motorride in Dallas by an assassin named Lee Harvey Oswald. This picture can be accessed through the Library of Congress Prints and Photograph division Washington.

This event is significant in American history because he was the forth president to be assassinated, after Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. His death raised questions and objections for many Americans; even to this day, there are still a lot of conspiracy theories and debates regarding this event.
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