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President and Mrs. Kennedy bypass scheduled plans and approach welcoming crowds at fence line of Love Field.
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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 line 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.
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Lee Harvey Oswald heads down the stairwell and leaves the Texas School Book Depository building, travelling east.
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The first news wire service announcement of shooting broadcast.
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The presidential limousine arrives at Parkland Hospital.
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CBS network interrupts TV soap opera, 'As the World Turns' and Walter Cronkite announces to America the President has been shot.
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Police broadcast the first description of a suspect.
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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover calls President Kennedy's brother and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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Doctors pronounce President Kennedy dead while crowd gathers outside the hospital awaiting the news.
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An informal roll call of the Texas School Book Depository's employees is taken.
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Police find empty rifle shells at the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
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Police officer J.D. Tippit is shot and killed at the corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.
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Dallas officers find hidden rifle in northwest section of the Texas School Book Depository's sixth floor.
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Acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff gives official announcement of President Kennedy's death.
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Oswald on the Move- Oswald returns to his room at 1026 North Beckley Avenue in Oak Cliff to retrieve his pistol, then leaves minutes later to wait at a bus stop.