President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 during his presidential campaign through Texas for re-election.
JFKlibrary.org wrote that they were to depart on a "two-day, five-city tour of Texas." JFK and Mrs. Kennedy were riding through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas with Governor John Connally and Nellie, his wife when "gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza." Both the governor and the president were shot, the governor in the chest while the president took two bullets to his neck and head. President Kennedy was buried at Arlington Cemetery on November 25, 1963 where Mrs. Kennedy, and his brothers, Robert and Edward "lit an eternal flame." Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy and the shooting of Governor Connally, and would later be shot at point blank range by a local night club owner the day of his transferral from the police station to the county jail. People today are still asking questions about the JFK assassination trying to make sense of such a senseless and shocking act of violence.
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