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This article outlines the media coverage after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963 at 12.30pm CST. The television coverage of the assassination and subsequent state funeral was the first in the television age and was covered live from start to finish, nonstop for 70 hours.
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [306] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [307]
Members of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential parties filled the central compartment of the plane to witness the swearing in. At 2:38 p.m. CST, Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office as the 36th President of the United States. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Johnson stood at the side of the new President as he took the oath of office.
President John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy ride with Texas Governor John Connally and others in an open car motorcade shortly before the president was assassinated ...
Sixty-one years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in a shocking tragedy that still echoes. The JFK assassination sent the nation into mourning and shook ...
Meanwhile, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr – a nephew of JFK and son of Robert F Kennedy, who was himself assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968 while running for president – backs a ...
March 6, 1975: Assassination researchers Robert Groden and Dick Gregory present the first-ever US network television showing of the Zapruder film on the ABC late-night television show Good Night America (hosted by Geraldo Rivera). March 29, 1979: The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated the assassination and based on incorrect ...
Let Us Continue is a speech that 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson delivered to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy.