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James Curtis Jenkins was 21 years old and a Navy corpsmen who served as “autopsy technicians” and assisted the Navy pathologists, at President Kennedy's autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. After the autopsy, he was given orders by the secretary of the Navy and also by the department of defense not to discuss the autopsy. James did talk to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations because it was congress mandated and he would be subpoenaed anyway. One of the men that interviewed James was an attorney and the other was an FBI agent. They were looking for confirmation of the Warren Commission findings and validate the single bullet theory. James says he wants to see a legal conclusion to JFK's assassination, not a political one. He would even be willing to participate. James stated that the Clark Commission had ties to the government and that people that would have been more objective were pushed aside. He says that what he saw at the morgue, what he did at the morgue and what he participated in doesn't make sense from a medical or anatomical standpoint. James said that two FBI agents claims that there was no brain. James claims that Dr. Humes took a brain out of the Cranium and handed it to Dr. Bosewell who handed it to him. Recently, James has tried to get into archives photographs and evidence of the autopsy that he participated in and has been denied. He says that there is photographs that Fox put out there that he has seen and they are strange. When JFK's body came in to the morgue at 6:30 p.m., it was in a shipping casket. This is not typical protocol for a president. The body was taken out of the casket and placed on the table. It was already wrapped in sheets. He said while they were examining the body, four military officers came in. This is when Dr. Humes unwrapped the head and Humes And Dr. Fink examined it in front of James. James says that the description of the head wound in the autopsy report was not accurate to what he saw. He says that the size and the location of the wound were different than what was documented. In the report it states that over half of the brain was missing and James claims that less than a third of the total brain was missing. He also says that there was a large incision at the top of JFK's head wound and that it was though tears in the scalp had been surgically connected. He says that this could mean that someone had access to JFK's brain before it went to the morgue. James claims that the tracheotomy done on JFK was very unusual, even for an emergency tracheotomy. He said that it was done horizontally and he had never seen one done that way. He had never seen one done that large either or with ragged edges like that one had. One that large would never been done because you would probably damage the thyroid. It is possibly that it was done that way to remove evidence of a gun shot entrance wound. He saw only one other wound on JFK's body and that was in his back. James says that that wound was non fatal and that Oswald couldn't have been the perpetrator of that wound. The shot would have to have come from the right front. James thinks that Oswald was killed to keep JFK's assassination from going to trial and under the control of the government. He thinks that Humes, Bosewell and Fink were good men that were close to retirement from their military careers and that they were given a scenario to follow. James does not have a very high opinion of Lyndon Johnson. You can tell that Johnson had animosity toward JFK and that he was a very ambitious guy. James asked the question,
"Who are the two people in the government at the time that benefited the most?"
Which the answer to that was Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover.
Did you know that there is recordings of Jackie Kennedy saying that Johnson is a very dangerous man and that she always feared him?
She was was a no-nonsense, tough, uncompromising, aggressive and fearless, American journalist and television game show panelist. She was a true representative of the people, and felt the public had a right to know the truth, wherever it may lead. Ernest Hemingway called her
”the greatest woman writer in the world”.
Dorothy was born July 3, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois to newspaper reporter James Lawrence Kilgallen and his wife, Mae Ahern. She started her career shortly when she was 17 as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1936, at 23 years old, Dorothy competed in a race around the world using only transportation available to the general public. She was the only woman to compete in the contest and she came in second. She wrote a book about the experience, Girl Around The World. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway," which was syndicated to more than 140 papers with 30 million readers. She also covered high-profile murder trials. In the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, who denied killing his pregnant wife, and inspiration for the television series The Fugitive (1963-67), Dorothy single-handedly led Sheppard’s murder conviction to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. She told defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey that when the trial started, Judge Edward Blythin called her into his chambers to get her autograph and commented that,
”It’s an open-and-shut case.
He’s guilty as hell”.
She was one of the first reporters to imply that the CIA was involved in working with the mob to try to assassinate Fidel Castro. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line? She was on the show for 15 years, until her death. Most of her articles dealt with show business news and gossip. She did venture in more serious topics, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She scored the only interview with Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused killer of President John Kennedy. She scored a world exclusive when she obtained an advance copy of the Warren Commission's controversial report. This infuriated President Lyndon Johnson, who had not yet even seen it. She was publicly skeptical of the conclusions of the Warren Commission's report into the assassination of President Kennedy. She wrote several newspaper articles on the subject and obtained a copy of Jack Ruby's testimony to the Warren Commission, which she included. She wrote the first article on the FBI’s intimidation of witnesses. She interviewed a witness to the shooting of Officer J. D. Tippit, Acquilla Clemons, whom the Warren Commission never questioned. Clemons claimed to have two men at the scene of the murder, none matching Lee Harvey Oswald‘s description. Dorothy also launched a private inquiry which took her to New Orleans. This resulted in her drawing the scrutiny and scorn of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and LBJ. FBI agents were dispatched to her private residence in New York to interrogate her. She said she’d rather die than reveal her sources. She turned down a an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler. On August 3, 1962, Less than 48 hours after Dorothy wrote a piece about Marilyn Monroe‘s affair with President John K. Kennedy, Monroe was found dead. Dorothy began writing of her suspicions that Monroe’s cause of death was an overdose of pills and challenged the police and medical evidence. When LIFE Magazine came out, with a controversial photo of Oswald, Dorothy publicly challenged its authenticity. Agencies of the federal government like the CIA and FBI followed Dorothy and her friends for many years. Her phones were tapped and she had to arrange secret meetings with sources. Near the end of her life, she very much felt she was in danger . Before her death, she bought a gun for protection. She told her coworkers on What's My Line? that she had planned a second trip to New Orleans to investigate Mafia don Carlos Marcello. Dorothy was quoted as saying, ”If the wrong people knew what I know about the JFK assassination, it would cost me my life.” On November 8, 1965, Dorothy's hair dresser, found her dead, propped up in bed, in full make-up, wig, and earrings. She was not wearing her regular pajamas, but instead a blue matching peignoir and robe. A book lay on her bed, that she had finished reading weeks earlier. Her reading glasses were nowhere nearby. She was found in a third-floor bedroom of her Manhattan townhouse, although she always slept in the fifth-floor. Her death was much like Marilyn Monroe's, which she had also questioned.
”If she were just trying to get to sleep, and took the overdose of the pills accidentally, why was the light on?
Usually people sleep better in the dark.”
When Dorothy was found, her light was also on and like Marilyn Monroe it was determined that her death had been caused by a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturates. Dr. James Luke, the medical examiner that did her autopsy, did not sign the death certificate. It was signed by another physician, Dr. Dominick DiMaio. When he was questioned, he did not know why his name was appeared on the certificate, and he was not working in Manhattan at the time of Dorothy's death. An investigative article that took months to assemble, and relied on eyewitnesses and other sources who were never interviewed by authorities, her most likely was tied into her probe into the death of JFK. A mysterious man befriended her in the months leading up to her death. Just a day or so before she died, Dorothy told her hairdresser, Marc Sinclaire, her belief that someone close to her was a “snitch” and was watching her closely and feeding information to people who wished to do her harm. Three years after her death, tissue samples were analyzed. The glass next to her bed showed traces of a drug she was known to take called Nembutol, however that drug was not found in her body. Analysis showed a deadly combination of three barbiturates: Secobarbital, Amobarbital, and Pentobarbital. Her husband, who was sleeping on the fourth floor, gave inconsistent accounts of what happened the night of Dorothy's death. He claimed that she arrived home at 11:30 p.m., happy, and went off to write her column, but at the same time she was seen in the lounge at The Regency Hotel where the What’s My Line? cast and guests gathered until 2 a.m. The Regency was seven blocks from the townhouse. Later, when asked about his wife’s JFK investigation, he stated that,
”I’m afraid that will have to go to the grave with me.”
He died of a drug overdose in 1971 without revealing any information about the investigation. In 1975, Dorothy's son was contacted by the FBI wanting to know where her JFK files were. He told them the notes were still missing. This was long after the FBI decided Oswald had killed the president. The large folder of notes on the JFK assassination that Dorothy carried with her was never found. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is still looking into Dorothy's death. Dorothy was laid to rest at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Westchester, NY. John F. Kennedy Who Really Killed JFK Do We Finally Know Who Killed JFK
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961.
His presidency was at the height of the Cold War.
He dealt with with managing relations with the Soviet Union.
He was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
Ten days before JFK's death, a man in a New Orleans bar overheard someone bet that the president would be dead in three weeks.
The man didn't report the conversation until after the assassination.
A British newspaper received an anonymous phone call before the president was shot.
The caller said that Cambridge news reporter should call the american embassy on London for some big news.
MI5 was able to determine that the call came in 25 minutes before the president was shot.
There were questions about the motorcade.
The motorcade routes were chosen by secret service agents,Winston G. Lawson and Forrest V. Sorrels.
The route had too many twists and turns.
This supposedly caused the motorcade to drive too slow.
Secret servicemen sent in advance to check out the route noted that there were over 20,000 windows over looking the route.
They didn't have enough men to station at every window.
They inspected none of the windows.
One week after the assassination Lindon B. Johnson created a commission to investigate the circumstances of the assassination and the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The commission was headed by Court Justice Earl Warren.
The official result from the committee was that there was only one shooter and that shooter was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald was in Russia in 1959.
He tried to renounce his American citizenship.
He had a history of violence.
While he was in the military, he became certified as a sharp shooter with an M1- rifle.
He was under active surveillance by the F.B.I.
The F.B.I. never told this to the secret service.
Oswald was employed by the Texas School depository, which was on the motorcade route.
The bullets came from Oswalds gun he had ordered through a catalog.
The gun was found hidden near the sixth floor window along with three bullet cartridges.
Oswald had attempted to murder Major General Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963.
45 minutes after the assassination of the president, Oswald killed Dallas policeman J.D. Tibit with a revolver.
Oswald was killed by night club owner Jack Ruby.
Two days after JFK's death, F.B.I. director, J. Edgar Hoover
dedicated a memo.
The memo reads:
"The thing i am concerned about is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."
There were three bullets fired.
One bullet missed.
The second hit Jfk in the throat and went through the seat and hit governor Conally in the back.
It exited below his right nipple.
Then through his right wrist.
It ended in Conally's left thigh.
And the final bullet hit JFK in the back of the head.
In a deposition from 1975, former C.I.A. director, Richard Helms was asked:
"Is there any information involved with the assassination of President Kennedy, that which in any way shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was a C.I.A. agent or am agen...."
The document released to the public ends in mid sentence...
There supposedly was footage different from the Zapruder film.
It went missing.
People that saw the footage swear they have seen puffs of smoke coming from the grassy knoll or a second shooter.
Lindon B, Johnson and JFK had an argument the day before the assassination.
LBJ played a big part in JFK going to Dallas.
LBJ's right hand man had been warned, by a high profile lawyer, that political area was not safe.
And he feared for the president's safety.
The president was not informed.
Other officials, even JFK's brother, Bobby knew this and said nothing.
In footage of the assassination, you can see the "Umbrella Man".
You can see one lone man holding an umbrella over his head.
Kennedy is shot when he passes by the umbrella man.
The umbrella man sits next to another man on the grassy knoll after JFK is shot.
Through history people have used umbrellas as a symbol of protest.
A department of defense weapon developer testified that he had invented a weaponized umbrella.
One of my questions is... where was his secret service.
The secret serviceman that ran up to his wife, was her agent.
Also, why were the running boards up on the vehicle?
Why did the secret service not let the body be autopsied in Texas?
Why did the secret service fight and basically kidnap the body to take in back home?
The House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed in 1976 to conduct the assassinations of JFK and MLK.
The committee formed after the Senate committee confirmed that the C.I.A. had purposely withheld information from the Warren Committee investigation.
The former head of the C.I.A. was on the Warren Commission.
Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that at least two gunmen fired at the President.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
The committee also believed that the Soviet Government, the Cuban Government,
the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, and the
The Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Central Intelligence Agency
were not involved.
President Kennedy did not receive adequate protection.
The investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination was inadequate.
The committee believe that four shots were fired.
The fourth shot came from a second assassin located on the grassy knoll, but missed.
The HSCA concluded the existence and location of this alleged fourth shot based on the later discredited Dallas Police Department Dictabelt recording analysis.
A Prelude to Death
June 13, 1962: Lee Oswald return from the Soviet Union to live in Texas.
January 15, 1963: John Connally is sworn in as Governor of Texas.
March 12, 1963: An order for a rifle with a mounted scope is sent to Klein’s Sporting Goods from someone named “A. Hidell” (an alias used by Oswald) to be delivered to a P.O. Box that he rented.
March 13, 1963: Order received by Klein’s Sporting Goods from A. Hidell P.O. Box 2915 Dallas, TX for an Italian Carbine 6.5 W/4X Scope.
Total cost is $21.45 for rifle with serial number C2766.
Oswald is given notice in sometime in March that he will be terminated from his job.
April 6, 1963: Oswald works his last day.
April 10, 1963: Someone fires a bullet and misses retired General Edwin Walker, an advocate of far right politics and strongly anti-communist.
The shot came from a distance of less than 40 yards.
The case remained unsolved until two weeks after the death of Lee Oswald when his wife admitted to the FBI it may have been her husband.
April 11, 1963: U.S. Rep. Albert Richard Thomas (D-Tex) announced his retirement from Congress due to health reasons.
June 6, 1963: Rep. Albert Thomas announced he is reconsidering based on the advice of Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
April 23, 1963: Vice President Johnson tells reporters in Dallas that President Kennedy may visit Texas sometime this summer.
June 5, 1963: President Kennedy, vice president and Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson, and Governor John Connally were together in a meeting in El Paso, they agreed to a second presidential visit to the state of Texas later that year.
June 6, 1963:Kennedy later decided to embark on the trip with these goals in mind: help raise more Democratic Party presidential campaign fund contributions; begin his quest for reelection in November 1964; and, Kennedy-Johnson ticket had barely won Texas in 1960, He wanted to help mend political fences among several leading Texas Democratic party.
June 24, 1963: Oswald applies for a US passport in New Orleans, stating he intended to depart during the period from October toDecember 1963 as a tourist for 3 months to one year’s duration.
The next day he was issued a US Passport.
September 17, 1963: Jack Valenti sends an invitation to the White House asking President Kennedy to attend an Appreciation Dinner in Houston on November 21, 1963 honoring Albert Thomas for his decision not to retire from Congress. The invitation is received at the White House on September 19, 1963
Lee Oswald is issued a 15 day Mexican tourist card using the name LEE, Harvey Oswald.
September 20, 1963: President Kennedy addresses the United Nations General Assembly
He offers the Soviet Union a joint expedition to the Moon.
The proposal is controversial with Congress.
Raises questions about how much money should be in the NASA budget.
September 21, 1963: Rep. Albert Thomas, a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and Chairman of its Subcommittee of Independent Offices reviewing the Kennedy Administration’s record $5.3 billion 1964 NASA budget proposal.
Sent a letter to the President asking for clarification of his U.N. speech regarding Soviet-US moon landing.
He wonders that proposal indicates a weakening of America’s effort in the space program.
September 23, 1963: President Kennedy responds to Congressman Albert Thomas letter about U.S. Space Program by writing him a “Dear Al” letter explaining his position.
Late that night Lee Oswald leaves New Orleans travels to Mexico City in hopes of gaining entrance to Cuba, where travel has been banned from the United States.
September 24-28, 1963: President Kennedy embarks on an eleven-state conservation tour.
Includes Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Utah, Oregon, California, and Nevada.
September 24, 1963: At a press conference in Austin, Texas, Governor Connally announces he will visit Washington DC October 2-4, 1963.
He hopes to see the President.
The decision is reached this evening by the White House to accept the invitation to the Albert Thomas dinner in and turn it into a 2 day political trip encompassing all the major cities of Texas.
Kennedy had wanted to visit Texas at some point, he had not planned to go at this particular time.
Because of the invitation to speak at the Appreciation Dinner in Houston for Albert Thomas on November 21, 1963, the President decided to time his visit to Texas around that event.
September 26, 1963: The Dallas Morning News is the first newspaper that announces the visit to Texas by President Kennedy November 21-22, 1963.
September 27, 1963: Lee Oswald arrives in Mexico City.
He visits the Cuban Consulate three times in an attempt to secure a visa to Cuba and to the Soviet Embassy to obtain a visa from them but is denied in both.
September 30, 1963: Lee Oswald purchases a bus ticket using the alias Mr. H. O. Lee leaving for Mexico City for Laredo, Texas at 0830 on October 2, 1963.
October 3, 1963: Oswald arrives in Dallas and spends the night at the YMCA.
October 4, 1963: Governor Connally meets with President Kennedy at the White House.
Oswald returns to stay at the Paine’s residence in Irving, Texas for the weekend.
October 10, 1963: The House of Representatives voted 302-32 to pass the 1964 fiscal year Independent Offices Appropriations Bill containing funding for NASA and 25 other independent government agencies.
Guiding the bill, House was the Chairman of the subcommittee Rep. Albert Thomas.
The bill prohibited NASA from spending any of its budget on a joint Soviet Moon landing.
October 11, 1963: Kenneth O’Donnell sends a letter of reply to Jack Valenti formally accepting his for the President to speak at the dinner honoring Rep. Albert Thomas.
October 15, 1963: Ruth Paine calls the Texas School Book Depository.
Convinces building superintendent Roy Truly
to give Oswald a job interview.
Truly interviews him that same day and hires Oswald as a temporary employee.
He starts training the following day.
October 20, 1963: Kenneth O’Donnell, special assistant and Appointments Secretary to President Kennedy, calls Jerry Bruno the advance man for the Kennedy trips, and asks him to come to the White House to discuss the planning of the trip to Texas.
October 21, 1963: Bruno meets with O’Donnell and is told to contact Walter Jenkins one of Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s top administrative assistants to get his input for the trip.
October 24, 1963: Bruno meets with Walter Jenkins who tells Bruno the stops Governor Connally has suggested.
First fly to San Antonio on November 21 and motorcade to Brooks Air Force Base.
Then flys to Houston and motorcade to the Rice Hotel where the Albert Thomas dinner was originally scheduled to take place that evening and stay overnight there.
On the morning of November 22nd fly to Fort Worth to receive an honorary degree at Texas Christian University.
Fort Worth motorcade the short distance to Dallas for a luncheon at the Statler Hilton Hotel.
Finally a fundraising dinner in Austin. Jenkins suggested Bruno go to Texas, meet with Governor Connally and evaluate the sites himself and to meet with Senator Ralph Yarborough .
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II gives a contentious speech on what is designated United Nations Day at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium.
He is hit across the face with a picket sign and then spit upon.
October 29, 1963: Jerry Bruno flies to Texas to evaluate the stops for the Kennedy.
He is told that the Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas is now unavailable for the Dallas luncheon because the ballroom is reserved.
Governor Connally suggests the Dallas Trade Mart as an alternative luncheon site.
October 30, 1963: Bruno is flown to the various cities in Texas that the President would visit in Clifton Carter's private plane. Carter is one of Vice-President Johnson's top aides.
The San Antonio and Houston sites are checked and confirmed as acceptable by Bruno.
Visiting Texas Christian University in Fort Worth he is informed by school officials that TCU has no intention of conferring an honorary degree on the President.
Only the use of their campus as a location for a speech was approved by the university.
Bruno informs Gov. Connally of this development and Connally says he will meet with the University Board of Regents the next night.
Bruno visits the Trade Mart, and doesn't like it because of the many catwalks that would be over the President.
He feels that in light of the Stevenson incident which had just occurred a few days earlier the catwalks could present a security problem.
He asks to be shown other available sites in Dallas.
Kennedy's upcoming trip to Dallas was first announced to the public in September 1963. The exact motorcade route was finalized on November 18 and announced to the public a few days before November 22.
During the third week of October 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was living in a rented room Oak Cliff district of Dallas.
Several people, including Stevenson, warned JFK against coming to Dallas.
Kennedy ignored their advice.
Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry increased the level of security during Kennedy's visit; he put into effect the most stringent security precautions in the city's history.
Curry even deputized citizens to take action for any suspicious acts that could have been pointed towards the president.
Thursday, November 21, 1963, 11:07 p.m., Air Force One lands at Carswell Air Force base on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas.
Air Force Two also lands at Carswell with vice president Lyndon B. Johnson, the Texas governor John Connally, and Senator Ralph Yarborough.
At 11:35 p.m., the First Couple arrives at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth.
On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 8:45 a.m., the president is speaking before breakfast in a square across Eighth Street, accompanied by Congressman Jim Wright, Senator Yarborough, Governor Connally and Vice President Johnson.
At 9:10 a.m., JFK takes his place in the hotel’s Grand Ballroom for the scheduled speech, the First Lady arriving amid loud applause 15 minutes later.
Roy Kellerman, the Secret Service agent in charge of the trip, is advised by Kenny O’Donnell that the presidential limousine should have its bubbletop off if it’s not raining in Dallas.
Later, press secretary Mac Kilduff shows the First Couple a disturbing advertisement seen in The Dallas Morning News, ironically and critically headlined ‘Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas’.
The Assassination
November 23, 1963
10:40 a.m.: In Fort Worth, Texas, Kennedy's motorcade departs Hotel Texas for Carswell Air Force Base.
11:20 a.m.: Air Force One departs Carswell Air Force Base for Dallas, Texas.
11:35 a.m.: Air Force Two arrives at Love Field in Dallas
11:44 a.m.: The Kennedys and Connallys disembark Air Force One and are greeted by the Johnsons.
11:55 a.m.: The motorcade leaves Love Field for its 10-mile trip through downtown Dallas.
The motorcade cars had been lined up in a certain order earlier that morning.
The original schedule was for the president to proceed in a long motorcade from Love Field through downtown Dallas, and end at the Dallas Business and Trade Mart.
12:30 p.m.: As the president's limousine passes the Texas School Book Depository, shots are fired from a sixth-floor window.
President Kennedy and Governor Connally are both wounded and rushed to Parkland Hospital.
President Kennedy is shot in the neck and head.
From one bullet, Conally sustains three broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken wrist.
The bullet finally lodged in his left thigh.
Wire services report three shots were fired as the motorcade passed under the Stemmons Freeway. Two bullets hit the president and one hit the governor.
12:36 p.m.: President Kennedy's limousine arrives at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Emergency efforts by Drs. Malcolm Perry, Kemp Clark and others are unsuccessful at reviving the President Kennedy.
Governor Connally's injuries are critical but not fatal.
12:40 p.m.: Viewers of the live soap opera As The World Turns receive the first national television report of the shooting from CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite.
12:45 p.m.: Dan Rather of CBS calls Parkland Memorial Hospital; a doctor there tells him he believes
Kennedy is dead.
12:50 p.m.: Kennedy's top military aide General Godfrey McHugh calls Air Force One from Parkland to state that they will soon be leaving for Andrews Air Force Base.
1:00 pm: 46-year-old John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, is declared dead, becoming the fourth US president killed in office.
1:15 pm: Lee Harvey Oswald kills Dallas Police Patrolman J. D. Tippit approximately 45 minutes after the assassination.
1:26 p.m.: Lyndon Johnson departs Parkland Memorial Hospital for Love Field.
2:00 pm: A bronze casket carrying the president's body, accompanied by Mrs. Kennedy and the Johnsons, leaves Parkland Hospital to board Air Force One.
2:13 p.m. : Police find the weapon used to kill the president on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book depository.
2:15 pm: Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-Marine, is arrested in the back of a movie theater where he fled after shooting Patrolman Tippit.
2:39 pm: Lyndon Johnson is sworn-in on the runway of Love Field aboard Air Force One.
6:00 pm: Air Force One arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
The coffin bearing the president's body is taken by ambulance to Bethesda Naval Hospital for an autopsy.
The flag-draped coffin is taken to the East Room of the White House early the next morning following the autopsy.
7:15 pm: Oswald is arraigned for the murder of Officer Tippit.
November 23, 1963: Oswald is arraigned for the murder of the president.
November 24, 1963: As Oswald is being transferred from the Dallas city jail to the county jail, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots and kills him.
The shooting is, inadvertently, shown live on TV.
Jack Ruby is immediately arrested.
November 25, 1963 - Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors and representatives from more than 90 countries in attendance.
November 26, 1963 - Jack Ruby is indicted in Dallas for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. He is later convicted, has the conviction overturned on appeal and dies of cancer in 1967 awaiting a new trial.
September 24, 1964 - The Warren Report is released with the following conclusions, "The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired from the sixth-floor window at the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository." And "The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald."
October 26, 2017 - The US government releases more than 2,800 records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in an effort to comply with a 1992 law mandating the documents' release. President Donald Trump keeps roughly 300 files classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and foreign relations. In a memo, Trump directs agencies that requested redactions to re-review their reasons for keeping the records secret within 180 days.
It's been highly debated for many years if the Cuban government had a role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At the time of Kennedy's death and unbeknownst to John and Robert Kennedy,the CIA was plotting with a high-level Cuban official, code-named AMLASH, to assassinate Fidel Castro as well as Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli and Rolando Cubela.
In 1967 President Johnson had ordered an internal CIA investigation after claims that Castro had known of the CIA's plot and had dispatched "teams" to retaliate.
Castro gave Associated Press reporter Daniel Harker an unusual, impromptu, three-hour interview in which he warned against U.S. support of terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders.
Gilberto Policarpo Lopez was born in Cuba. He left in 1960 to avoid being drafted into the military and eventually became a US citizen. During the last week of JFK's life, Lopezshadowed the president in Tampa. There, he waited for an important call from Cuba, giving him the “go-ahead order” to return. When the call never came, Lopez departed that November 18th or 19th, 1963 for Texas. Just days later, JFK flew few to Texas, where he was assassinated on November 22. At midnight on the same day JFK was killed, Lopez showed up at the Mexican border made his way to Mexico City.
The CIA flagged Lopez as a possible suspect in the assassination plot.
Just one month earlier, on October 8th, Oswald had also traveled to the Mexican capital from New Orleans. While there, Oswald visited both the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic establishments. Oswald had applied for a visa, but it was subsequently denied.
In Mexico City, Lopez apparently obtained a “Cuban courtesy” visa. On November 27th, he hopped on a Cubana Airlines flight to Havana, where Lopez was the only passenger.
"Mankind must put an end to war, before war puts an end to man kind."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961.
He was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
His presidency was at the height of the Cold War.
He dealt with with managing relations with the Soviet Union.
May 29, 1917
He was born Brookline, Massachusetts.
He was one of nine children born into an extremely wealthy family.
His father, Joseph Kennedy, was a leading political figure from
Boston.
His mother was a philanthropist.
His dad became the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
His grandparents were Irish immigrants.
John F Kennedy had one leg longer than the other and wore corrective shoes.
Due to this, he suffered from chronic back pain and occasionally, but privately, used crutches.
The swimming pool at the White House was constantly heated to 90 degrees and he would swim regularly to ease the pain.
The average reader can digest words at a rate of about 250 to 300 words per minute, JFK could reportedly read about four times faster than that, at a speed of 1200 words per minute.
April 1931
He had an appendectomy.
September 1931
He attended a Choate.
It was a boarding school in Connecticut.
He exploded a toilet seat with a powerful firecracker.
1934
Kennedy was beset by health problems that culminated with his emergency hospitalization.
At the time they thought he might have leukemia.
June, 1934
He was admitted to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the ultimate diagnosis there was colitis.
1935
Attended Princeton University but had to leave after two months due to a gastrointestinal illness.
September 1936
He enrolled at Harvard College..
His application essay stated: "The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a 'Harvard man' is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain."
1937
JOHN F. KENNEDY RECORDING FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS AT HARVARD,
June 1938
Kennedy sailed overseas with his father and older brother to work at the American embassy in London.
1939
In preparation for his Harvard honors thesis. Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
He then went to Czechoslovakia and Germany.
Kennedy was sent as his father's representative to help with arrangements for American survivors of the SS Athenia.
1940
Graduated cum lade from Harvard with Bachelor of Arts in government and a degree in international affairs.
1941
He joined the U.S. Naval Reserve.
Kennedy had various medical conditions and could not pass a proper physical examination.
Kennedy's dad persuaded friends in the military to accept a certificate of good health, a false one, from a family doctor.
August 2,1943
He was made commander of a PT-109 patrol boat that came under attack near the Solomon Islands.
The boat was rammed and caught fire.
Some of his shipmates were thrown overboard into the sea of burning oil.
Kennedy jumped in and to save 3 crew members.
For 12 hours, Kennedy and his crew clung to the wrecked hull, before he ordered them to abandon ship.
After the boat sank, Kennedy andthe other good swimmers placed the injured on a makeshift raft andswam approximately 3.5 miles to a nearby island.
Kennedy etched an SOS message into a coconut shell.
He gave to two natives to deliver to a nearby base in order to arrange for their rescue.
They were stranded for seven days until a pair of PT boats came to their rescue.
He earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service.
He also received a the Purple Heart.
March 4, 1945
He retired from the Navy Reserve on physical disability.
He was honorably discharged with the full rank of lieutenant.
September 12, 1953
John F Kennedy married newspaper photographer Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, in Newport, Rhode Island.
Together they had 4 children but only two survived infancy.
1947-1953
Kennedy represented the 11th congressional district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.
He joined the Education and Labor Committee and the Veterans' Affairs Committee.
He supported the Truman Document, public housing and opposed the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947.
He supported the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
1953-1960
He was elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts.
1955
He was given a copy of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond book, Casino Royale.
He became a James Bond Fan.
1957
He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his book called 'Profiles in Courage'.
It was compilation of short tales of bravery and integrity also formed the basis of a TV series of the same name, which was first broadcast during 1964 - 1965.
1960 Presidential Election
Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon.
1960
Kennedy said:
"Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
January 20 1961
John F Kennedy became the 35th President of America at age 43.
In his inauguration speech he said.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
He asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
He also added:
"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin." In closing, he expanded on his desire for greater internationalism: "Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you."
He was the youngest man elected as president.
Was the first boy scout to be president.
He was the first and only Roman Catholic to occupy that office.
He was the last president to wear a top hat to his inauguration.
He began the tradition of having an inaugural poet.
He was the second wealthiest president.
He did not take any salary as president.
He donated to charities including the boy scouts and the United Negro College Fund.
He was an animal lover.
While JFK was in office, the White House was home to five horses, two parakeets, two hamsters, a cat, a rabbit, and five dogs, including a mutt named Pushinka, a gift from Nikita Khrushchev.
Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, one of the first dogs in space.
He did not see eye to eye with previous president, Dwight D Eisenhower.
Eisenhower called Kennedy "Little Boy Blue."
January 30, 1961
Kennedy gives his first State of the Union Address.
In it he states:
"The denial of constitutional rights to some of our fellow Americans on account of race – at the ballot box and elsewhere – disturbs the national conscience, and subjects us to the charge of world opinion that our democracy is not equal to the high promise of our heritage."
March 6, 1961
Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925.
It required government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
It established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.
April 16, 1961
The 'Bay of Pigs' incident took place and was unsuccessful.
It was an attempt by CIA-trained Cuban exiles who invaded southern Cuba to overthrow the government.
May 25, 1961
He proposed a plan to congress to get a man on the moon before the end of the year.
In his speech titled "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs", he said:
".. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish"
July, 1961
Kennedy gave a speech announcing his decision to add $3.25 billion to the defense budget, along with over 200,000 additional troops, stating that an attack on West Berlin would be taken as an attack on the U.S.
John F Kennedy played a key role in the creation of the Peace Corps.
The Peace Corps promotes peace and international friendship.
Over 210,000 Americans have joined.
He was also a big supporter of the civil rights movement.
Kennedy's proposals became part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
September 12. 1962
NASA built two new centers: a Launch Operations Center for the large Moon rocket northwest of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and a Manned Spacecraft Center on land donated through Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Kennedy took the occasion as an opportunity to deliver another speech at Rice to promote the space effort.
In the speech he said:
"No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. ... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
September 30, 1962
The Ole Miss Riot. James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi but was prevented from entering.
Robert Kennedy send 400 federal marshals and
President Kennedy reluctantly sent 3,000 troops after the situation on campus turned out violent.
The riot left two people dead and a dozen others injured, but Meredith did finally enroll for class.
October, 1962
A thirteen day worldwide crisis took place, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK stopped the Russians from entering Cuba with nuclear missiles that could then be deployed to the US Naval quarantine surrounded Cuba.
JFK diverted the world from the brink of nuclear war.
He rejected Operation Northwoods plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba.
Secret Service agent Robert Bouck installed secret recording devices in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House at the request of President Kennedy.
More than 260 hours of private conversations were recorded.
He hosted a private screening of Dr. No at the White House.
November 20, 1962
Kennedy signed Executive Order 1106.
It prohibited racial discrimination in federally supported housing or "related facilities".
June 10, 1963
He delivered the commencement address(the Strategy of Peace) at American University in Washington, D.C.
He outlined a plan to curb nuclear arms, but he also "laid out a hopeful, yet realistic route for world peace at a time when the U.S. and Soviet Union faced the potential for an escalating nuclear arms race."
Kennedy said:
"To discuss a topic on which too often ignorance abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived—yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace ... I speak of peace because of the new face of war...in an age when a singular nuclear weapon contains ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied forces in the Second World War ... an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and air and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn ... I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men ... world peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance ... our problems are man-made—therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants."
He maid two announcements.
#1 That the Soviets had expressed a desire to negotiate a nuclear test ban treaty.
#2 That the U.S had postponed planned atmospheric tests.
He also signed the the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
June 26, 1963
He gave a public speech in West Berlin, reiterating the American commitment to Germany and criticized communism.
He stated :
"Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." The speech is known for its famous phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a citizen of Berlin"). A million people were on the street for the speech"
June 1963
He was the first foreign leader to address the Houses of the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament).
He was subject to three death threats while in Ireland.
September 1963
In his speech before the United Nations, Kennedy urged cooperation between the Soviets and Americans in space.
He recommended that Apollo be switched to "a joint expedition to the Moon".
However, the Soviets did not commit to a manned Moon mission until 1964.
October 1963
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty prohibited atomic testing on the ground, in the atmosphere, or underwater, but not underground.
Ratified by the U.S. Senate and signed it into law by Kennedy.
October 11, 1963
Kennedy had signed National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 263.
Which ordered the withdrawal of 1,000 military personnel by year's end from Vietnam.
And the bulk of them out by 1965.
Friday November 22, 1963
While travelling in an open top car through downtown Dallas, Texas. Aged 46 years, he became the 4th president to be assassinated, and the youngest president to die in office.
He was shot once in the back, the bullet exiting via his throat, and once in the head.
Kennedy was taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment.
He was pronounced dead 20 minutes later.
He had been in office for 1,036 days.
The shots supposedly came from the Texas School Book Depository.
That is where Lee Harvey Oswald was a order filer.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with Kennedy's assassination.
He denied that he fired any shots.
He claimed he was a patsy.
November 26, 1963
A Requiem Mass was celebrated for Kennedy at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle.
It was officiated by Father John J. Cavanaugh.
Afterward, Kennedy was interred in a small plot, (20 by 30 ft.), in Arlington National Cemetery.
Over a period of three years, an estimated 16 million people visited his grave.
The honor guard at Kennedy's graveside was the 37th Cadet Class of the Irish Army.
March 14, 1967
Were disinterred and moved only a few feet away to a permanent burial plot and memorial.
John F. Kennedy's grave is lit with an "Eternal Flame".
1979
The U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that it believed "that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
