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7:23 am: Oswald goes to work
Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee at the Texas book depository building in Dallas, goes to work with Buell Wesley Frazier, a young worker there. Frazier asks about the long, paper-wrapped package in Oswald’s arms, to which Oswald says: “Oh, just some curtains.” -
11:30 am: Arrival in Dallas
Air Force One lands at Love Field in Dallas and the disembarking President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy are met by the press and a crowd of Texans. -
11:45 am: The Motorcade
The Kennedys join Texas governor John Connally, his wife, Nellie, in an open-air limousine. Vice-president Lyndon Johnson and his wife ride in another limo nearby. -
Noon: Downtown Dallas
The motorcade heads for downtown Dallas, passing through crowds estimated at over 150,000 people. -
12:29 pm: Dealey Plaza
As the limo enters Dealey Plaza, Nellie Connally turned to the president and remarked, “Mr President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.” -
12:30 pm: Assasination
A bullet strikes the president in the back while he waves, followed by a second shot to the back of his head. Another shot severely wounds the governor. A man in the crowd, Abraham Zapruder, happens to film the sequence on his home-movie camera. -
12:31 pm: Reaction, and Oswald departs
Hearing what he initially thought to be a firecracker, secret service agent Clinton Hill sees the president recoil from the first shot. He runs from the follow-up car, but when he reaches the limousine the second shot hits the president, and the agent leaps aboard too late. -
1:15 pm: Officer Tippit killed
Police officer JD Tippit pulls up to Oswald in his car, after having heard of a suspect matching his description. After briefly speaking through an open window, Tippit stepped out of his car and was shot three times in the chest and once in the temple. Twelve people witnessed a man fleeing the scene, and six later identified Oswald in police lineups. -
Parkland hospital
Doctors are unable to save the president, who arrived ‘moribund’. One says: ‘We never had any hope of saving his life.’ A Catholic priest administered last rites and the first lady reportedly held her husband’s hand and placed one of her rings onto his finger. -
Oswald's flight
Oswald walks back to his rooming house, changes his jacket there for one more lightly colored, and heads back into the street. -
1:30 pm: Texas Theatre
Hearing sirens, Oswald ducks into the Texas Theatre without paying, and takes a seat for the movie War is Hell. Police receive a tip from the area about a suspicious man matching their description for Tippit’s murderer. -
1:30 pm: Texas Theater
Hearing sirens, Oswald ducks into the Texas Theatre without paying, and takes a seat for the movie War is Hell. Police receive a tip from the area about a suspicious man matching their description for Tippit’s murderer. -
1:33 pm: Kennedy announced dead
The assistant White House press secretary announces the president’s death, which the press reports in real time. -
1:33 pm Kennedy Announced Dead
The assistant White House press secretary announces the president’s death, which the press reports in real time. -
2:20 pm: Air Force One
The hearse carrying the president arrives at Air Force One, with the first lady sitting next to the bronze coffin. -
1:45 pm: Oswald arrested
Fifteen police officers surround the movie theater, and four officers are needed to subdue Oswald inside. At 1:51 pm police report him in custody. -
2:20 pm: Air Force One
The hearse carrying the president arrives at Air Force One, with the first lady sitting next to the bronze coffin. -
2:38 pm: Lyndon B Johnson sworn in
Vice-president Johnson is sworn in as president on JFK’s Bible while standing in a cramped compartment of Air Force One, next to his wife and Mrs Kennedy. -
11:28 pm: Oswald charged
Oswald is formally charged with Kennedy's assassination -
3:56 am
The president’s casket is placed in the East Room of the White House, where it stays under honor guard for 24 hours. Over 250,000 people, including dignitaries from over 90 countries, attend the funeral a few days later. -
11:17 am
Jack Ruby sends a money gram at Western Union. The receipt is stamped 11:17 am. -
11:21 am
Police remove Lee Harvey Oswald from the police station to be transferred to the county jail. Jack Ruby approaches Oswald in a crowded hall and shoots him -
1:07 pm
Lee Harvey Oswald is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital, never having regained consciousness.