Lee Harvey Oswald killed US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. When Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, shot Kennedy from a nearby building, he was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie.
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