JFK+Assassination,+50th+Anniversary


 * JFK Assassination Project** **50th Anniversary, 1963-2013** [[image:John-F-Kennedy-1917-1963.jpg width="188" height="240"]]

**Instructions for the JFK Project**


 * Consult this Link for a Chronicle of the 1960s**

** BCHS Student Work **

**Brandon Alford**

**Dion Anderson and Tia Pullum**

**Dillon Andrews and Jarvis Richardson**

**Shaneque Atchison**

**Lane Chatham**

**Cody Coleman**

**Chad Cooper**

**Morgan Covington**

**Emily Creasey**

**Katelin Crenshaw**

**Madison Crenshaw**

**Trevino Crook and** **Schueler Stevens**

**Theresa Duke and Yu Yan Ou**

**Victoria Dumas**

**Justin Graham**

**Kyanne Hadley**

**Ben Hastie**

**Jenny Hastings**

**Kierston Howell and Haley Thompson**

**Dalton Jerkins**

**Eddie Jeselink**

**Katie Johnstone**

**Haley Kendrick**

**Coco Knight**

**Tiera Lamkin**

**Lark Lee**

**Mickalea Levy and Mary Shiver**

**Heather Martocci**

**LaTwiya Morrison, Tkayha Green, Darnicka Smith**

**Madison Newburn**

**Alisha Phillips and Megan Baughman**

**Nicole Priest**

**Cailey Roland**

**Sharrickka Smith and Leilani Smith**

**Tucker Stewart**

**Lori Tatum**

**Akirea Washington**

**Zack Wilcox**

**Cathryn Williams and David Brown**

**John Michael Williams**

**Victoria Williams**

** Key Points Regarding the Assassination **

On **November** **22, 1963,** In Dallas, Texas, **President John F. Kennedy** was assassinated by a **Lee Harvey Oswald**, a lone gunman. Oswald, who fired a bolt-action rifle three times from while perched in an upper floor of the ** Texas School Book Depository Building **, hit Kennedy twice, one being a fatal head shot.

Above: **JFK, Jackie Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connnally in the open-top Presidential limousine; A frame from the the** ** //Zapruder Film// showing JFK being hit in the neck. **

In November 1963, **President Kennedy**, First Lady **Jackie Kennedy**, Vice President **Lyndon Johnson** and **Mrs. Johnson** made a political trip to Texas. In Dallas, on Friday afternoon, **November 22nd**, President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy traveled in a large motorcade in an uncovered limousine. Texas Governor John Connally and his wife rode with the first couple.

At Dealey Plaza, yards from the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building, **three shots rang out**, with two of them hitting the president. **Governor Connally was hit by one of the same bullets that hit President Kennedy**. In the photo above right, the moment is captured in which President Kennedy and Governor Connally were hit by the same bullet. **The third shot hit President Kennedy in the head, and he died a short time later at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.** Governor Connally survived his wounds.

Despite decades of conspiracy theories, the most sound evidence indicates that the shooter was **Lee Harvey Oswald**, an aspiring pro-Castro Marxist who worked in the **Texas Schoolbook Depository Building**. While trying to escape, Oswald also shot a Dallas police officer. Shortly after, Dallas law enforcement captured and arrested Oswald.

It was later discovered that Lee Harvey Oswald had been the shooter who tried to assassinate rightwing activist **General Edwin A. Walker** in April 1963. Oswald missed General Walker, and the crime remained unsolved on the day Kennedy visited Dallas.

**Two days after Oswald killed Kennedy, a Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as Oswald was being transferred to another jail.** **Ruby's actions have inspired many a conspiracy theory, but the preponderance of evidence indicates that Oswald was acting alone when he shot JFK, and moreover, Jack Ruby was acting alone when he shot Oswald.**

In the wake of the Kennedy assassination, **President Lyndon Johnson** assembled a high-profile group, led by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice **Earl** **Warren** to investigate the assassination. **The** ** //Warren Commission// ** **concluded** **that Oswald acted alone, as did Jack Ruby.**

Above: ** Snapshot of Lee Harvey Oswald with his rifle in 1963; Oswald Mugshot, November 23, 1963 **