USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated in 1963 while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.

Detailed explanation-3: -John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.

Detailed explanation-4: -In November of 1963, to seek support for New Frontier policies and with an eye on the 1964 elections, President John F. Kennedy set out on what was planned as a two-day, five-city tour of Texas.

Detailed explanation-5: -November was a campaigning month; the president traveled to Florida, Maine, and-with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson-heavily Republican Texas to gain support for his reelection. Kennedy spent the morning of Friday, November 22, 1963, making speeches in the Fort Worth and Dallas metropolitan area.