On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, John Kennedy hoped to gain support for the upcoming election. Kennedy, who was accompanied by his wife Jaqueline, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, Governor John B. Connally and Mrs. Connally, rode in an open car in a motorcade coming from Love Field. from the airport to the Dallas Trade Mart (“Kennedy”). At 12:30 p.m. CST, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed ("Kennedy"). The intrepid John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy seemed to know that death would eventually arrive at his door, as it did. Although one shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, managed to kill the president, the question remains whether he was the one and only shooter. Many unanswered questions and mysterious claims suggest that Oswald was not the only shooter, but that a second shooter may have assisted in the Kennedy assassination. Three shots were fired as the procession passed through Dealey Plaza. The first one missed. The second seriously injured Kennedy and Connally and a third inflicted fatal head trauma on the president. The injured were transported to Parkland Hospital where doctors pronounced Kennedy dead at 1:00 p.m. CST. Governor Connally underwent numerous operations and recovered from his injuries ("Kennedy"). Eyewitnesses to the shooting reported that shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository building. Police entered the building and discovered boxes stacked against a sixth-floor window and next to them a Carcano rifle, later identified as the murder weapon ("Kennedy"). Based on a description of the attacker, police officer J.D. Tippit arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a book depository employee, while he was walking on a sidewalk three...... middle of paper ......it's the truth. is hidden. Although official records will be released by 2017, the truth about the assassination may never be revealed. Works Cited “Alternative Theories of the John F. Kennedy Assassination.” Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Student Resources in Context. Internet. May 6, 2014. Engdahl, Sylvia. The assassination of John F. Kennedy. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2011. Print. “Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, November 22, 1963.” Historical events in the United States. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Student Resources in Context. Internet. May 6, 2014. McAuliffe, Carolyn. The assassination of John F. Kennedy. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2003. Print. Netzley, Patricia D. The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: New Discovery, 1994. Print. Pierron, James. “The Kennedy Phenomenon.” New criterion 32.7 (2014): 4-8. Literary reference center. Internet. May 6 2014.