Sunday, November 22, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 22


1963:President John F. Kennedy is fatally wounded by an assassin while riding with his wife in a motorcade in Dallas.

About 45 minutes later, Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit stops a man meeting the shooter’s description and is shot to death. The man is tracked to the Texas Theater and arrested. His name is Lee Harvey Oswald.

Ninety-nine minutes after Kennedy is declared dead, U.S. Judge Sarah T. Hughes swears in Lyndon Johnson as the 36th president of the United States.

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