assassination of JFK
Dealey Plaza shooting
The assassination of JFK refers to the murder of President John F.
Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged, but was himself killed two days later.
The event remains one of the most analyzed moments in American history, spawning decades of conspiracy theories about whether Oswald acted alone: Every American of a certain age remembers where they were when they heard about the assassination of JFK.
- DallasNorth Texas metropolitan area
- OswaldMale name, Germanic origin
- NovemberEleventh month
- 1963Mid-twentieth century date
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
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- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
assassination of JFKnatural causes
Death without external intervention
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assassination of JFKmoon landing
Craft settling on satellite
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