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President and Mrs. Kennedy bypass scheduled plans and approach welcoming crowds at fence line of Love Field. Over 2,500 people had turned out to greet the Kennedys.
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11:44am KENNEDYS DISEMBARK AIR FORCE ONE- President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, Texas Governor Connally and Mrs. Connally disembark Air Force One.
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The motorcade departs Love Field Airport, headed for the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart.
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The presidential limousine turns off Harwood onto Main Street in downtown Dallas.
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Large crowds line Main Street in downtown Dallas near the Adolphus Hotel. Over 150,000 people lined the ten mile motorcade route.
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President Kennedy and Governor Connally are shot in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
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The presidential limousine races up Stemmons Freeway to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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Lee Harvey Oswald is stopped and then released by a Dallas policeman in the second floor lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository. Dallas Police officer Merriam Baker and Roy Truly, the Texas School Book Depository building manager, stop Oswald but allow him to continue when Truly recognizes Oswald as an employee.
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OSWALD LEAVES TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY- Lee Harvey Oswald heads down the stairwell and leaves the Texas School Book Depository, travelling east. Oswald travels on foot to the Greyhound Bus Terminal on Lamar Street where he catches a cab to Oak Cliff.
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Oswald arrested after a struggle in the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff.
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Oswald is charged with murder of President Kennedy.
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Oswald is identified as the owner of the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson appears on television to proclaim November 25 as a national day of mourning. "...John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, has been taken from us by an act which outrages decent men everywhere... As he did not shrink from his responsibilities, but welcomed them, so he would not have us shrink from carrying on his work beyond this hour of national tragedy...therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson...do appoint Monday next, November 25...a national day of mou
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Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. Ruby is immediately taken into custody.
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Oswald dies of the gunshot wound after surgery at Parkland Hospital.
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John F. Kennedy, Jr. salutes his father's casket. Aircraft flyover and flag folding ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
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President Kennedy's widow and brother light eternal flame.