The famous assassination occurred two years, ten months and two days after John F. Kennedy took office as president.
At this time, with only a year left in the next presidential election, Kennedy's approval ratings were declining. In order to win the vote in Texas and to resolve the internal disputes of the Democratic Party, Kennedy decided to go in person.
Because the trip to Texas was in preparation for the 1964 presidential election, Kennedy's staff designed the route to give Kennedy the opportunity to meet as many people as possible.
As a result, Kennedy's parade route chose the most lively commercial area in the city center, and as soon as it was decided, it was immediately opened to attract popularity.
So, the local people knew Kennedy's route a few days ago.
For the same purpose, Kennedy opted for the convertible and rejected the security arrangement where security personnel stood in the back gears.
Near noon on November 22, 1963, Kennedy's Air Force One landed at an airport in Dallas. Afterwards, Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline boarded the Lincoln convertible.
The president and his wife sat in the back seat of the car, and the Governor Connery couple sat in the middle seat.
The convoy left the airport at 11:55 a.m. and headed for downtown Dallas.
At 12:25, the car pulled into Deli Square, where there was a sharp turn at a 120-degree angle, so the speed had to reach a speed of less than 10 km/h.
At 12:29, the first gunshots rang out, and Governor Connery looked back, wondering what was going on.
The second shot soon returned, at which point Kennedy stretched out his arm and grabbed his throat. The governor in the front seat also fell into his wife's arm, and he exclaimed, "Oh my God! They're going to kill us all!" ”
According to later investigations, the bullet shot in from the upper right of Kennedy's back, came out of his throat, then hit the back of Governor Connery in the front seat, came out of the right side of the chest, passed through his right hand, and then penetrated his left thigh. Because it was so magical, many people referred to the bullet as the "magic bullet."
Because of the problem of the spine, Kennedy wore armor that supported his back, and was still sitting upright, but his body was slightly tilted to the left.
Immediately after, a third bullet hit Kennedy in the head and overturned a large skull, spraying plasma and brain juice. Jacqueline exclaimed, "Oh my God! What are they doing? Oh, my God! They killed John, they killed my husband! ”
During this time, Jacqueline had climbed out of the car to the back cover, as if to grab something. Although she later explained that she had gone to pick up Kennedy's blown skull, many thought it was more of an intuitive reaction to wanting to escape in panic.
Returning to her seat, Jacqueline placed Kennedy's head on her lap as the driver stepped on the accelerator and sped toward the nearest Parkland Memorial Hospital.
When Kennedy was admitted to the emergency room, the doctors did not know that he had lost half of his braincase, and although the ECG showed that the heartbeat had stopped, there was still a weak pulse, and they were still trying to rescue him.
It was twenty minutes before Kennedy was pronounced dead.
Immediately after Kennedy's assassination, local police began a full-scale arrest of the killer.
Soon, they found the shooting address: the rightmost window on the sixth floor of the Texas Library, and locked the suspect's 24-year-old Oswald. During the arrest, Oswald also shot and killed a policeman.
Texas Library
Police found Oswald's file from the FBI and found that he had served in the Marine Corps, defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, and returned to the United States.
After returning to the United States, life has been unsatisfactory and mentally unstable. He had a hard time finding a job because employers found him difficult and arrogant.
A month before the assassination of Kennedy, he had just been introduced to work as a Texas librarian. The job consisted of packing books ordered by schools into cardboard boxes, and he was satisfied with the job.
In his spare time, Oswald enjoys playing with guns and often takes a bus to the countryside to practice targets. He was also keen on politics and set up a pro-Cuban organization of his own, but he was always the only one.
Because of the solid evidence: fingerprints on rifles, bullet casings, buttstocks and cardboard boxes, multiple witnesses fleeing the scene after the attack, shooting police officers during arrests, and resisting arrest, the FBI determined that Oswald was the killer within 24 hours of the incident.
But, to this day, conspiracy theories about the matter never stop.
The reason is that the whole thing is too bizarre: the murderer just likes to play with guns, but he can shoot a shot through the throat and a headshot within three shots, and the means are more like the style of the underworld. What is even more bizarre is that after the murderer was arrested, he was actually shot and killed in the police station.
The reason more people can't accept this conclusion is that an obscure civilian can shoot a president with great power?
But the truth is sometimes as simple as that the FBI was able to identify the killer within 24 hours because all the evidence and witnesses pointed to him.
The strongest evidence is the bullet, because every bullet is different, like a human fingerprint.
In 1978, when the U.S. Congress investigated the case again, it used a technique called neutron radiation testing to compare shell casings and bullet fragments, once again proving that Oswald was the only murderer of the Kennedy assassination.