On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was seated beside his smartly dressed wife, who was wearing a pink Chanel-like suit and matching pillbox hat and holding an armful of red roses that had been presented to her by adoring fans. They were seated in the back seat of a dark blue 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible sedan with John Connally, the Governor of Texas and his wife, Nellie. Jack was waving at the crowd that had assembled to watch the presidential motorcade proceed through the streets of Dallas.

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Dis nie so lank gelede nie, maar flitse uit die verlede, vir baie ‘n groot verlies met somber gedagtes.    Hulle was op pad toe die tragedie gebeur het.   Op 22 November 1963 het president John F. Kennedy langs sy deftig geklede vrou gesit, wat ‘n pienk Chanel-agtige pak en bypassende hoed gedra het asook ‘n armvol rooi rose vasgehou het wat deur aanhangers aan haar oorhandig is. Hulle het op die agterste sitplek van ‘n donkerblou 1961 Lincoln Continental-omskepbare sedan gesit saam met John Connally, die goewerneur van Texas en sy vrou, Nellie. Jack het vir die skare gewaai wat saamgedrom het om te kyk hoe die presidensiële motorstoet deur die strate van Dallas vorder.

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THE FINAL MOMENTS

The look on her husband’s face after he was shot would haunt Jackie for the rest of her life, revealed Christopher Anderson’s These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie. He looked puzzled, as The Mirror describes it. The last words she ever got to say to him were, “I love you, Jack. I love you,” according to Anderson, although Jackie herself recalled it slightly differently in a 1963 interview, as reported by the New York Daily News. All the way to Parkland Hospital, where President Kennedy would eventually be pronounced dead, as she recalled it, she was bent over him, asking “Jack, Jack, can you hear me? I love you.”

He was making small talk in the car. “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a nice welcome,” the Texas Governor’s wife had just remarked to Jack, referring to the huge, adoring crowd.

“No, you certainly can’t,” Jack replied, milliseconds before the bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald gun struck. The President was still alive when he was admitted to the hospital less than 10 minutes later, and Jackie did not leave his side or take off the suit which was now blood-soaked and splattered with brain tissue.

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22 NOVEMBER 1963

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11 JUNE 1963

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TREATY ROOM:    NUCLEAR TREATY – 1963

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2018 – Thanksgiving Day marks 55 years since President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy,” joined CBSN to discuss the 35th president of the United States.

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John F. Kennedy’s assassination forever changed Vice President Lyndon Johnson. The CBC’s Keith Boag traces the story of the unlikely president.

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The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated has sparked conspiracy theories, impacted witnesses for a lifetime and even inspired a JFK assassination tour.

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On November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas. Here is the live coverage from NBC.

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John F. Kennedy’s speech in Berlin

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