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11:46a.m. Kennedys Greet the Crowds
President and Mrs. Kennedy bypass scheduled plans and approach welcoming crowds at fence line of Love Field. -
11:52a.m. Motorcade Leaves Love Field
The motorcade departs Love Field Airport, headed for the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart. -
12:21p.m. Motorcade Turns onto Main Street
The presidential limousine turns off Harwood onto Main Street in downtown Dallas. -
12:27 p.m. Motorcade Passes Adolphus Hotel
Large crowds line Main Street in downtown Dallas near the Adolphus Hotel. Over 150,000 people line the ten mile motorcade route. -
12:30p.m. The President is Shot!
President Kennedy and Governor Connally are shot in Dallas' Dealey Plaza. -
12:31p.m. The Race to Parkland
The presidential limousine races up Stemmons Freeway to Parkland Memorial Hospital. -
12:32p.m. Dallas Policeman Stops Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald is stopped and then released by a Dallas policeman in the second floor lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository. -
12:33p.m. Oswald Leaves Book Depository
Lee Harvey Oswald heads down the stairwell and leaves the Texas School Book Depository building, travelling east. -
12:34p.m. The First Announcement
The first news wire service announcement of shooting broadcast. -
12:36p.m. Arrival at Parkland
The presidential limousine arrives at Parkland Hospital. -
12:40p.m. Breaking News
CBS network interrupts TV soap opera, 'As the World Turns' and Walter Cronkite announces to America the President has been shot. -
12:45p.m. Police Broadcast
Police broadcast the first description of a suspect. -
12:45p.m. Hoover Calls RFK
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover calls President Kennedy's brother and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. -
1p.m. Parkland Hospital Doctors
Doctors pronounce President Kennedy dead while crowd gathers outside the hospital awaiting the news. -
1:03p.m. Roll Call at the Texas School Book Depository
An informal roll call of the Texas School Book Depository's employees is taken. -
1:12p.m. Rifle Shells
Police find empty rifle shells at the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. -
1:15p.m. Officer Tippit Shot
Police officer J.D. Tippit is shot and killed at the corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. -
1:22p.m. Rifle Discovered
Dallas officers find hidden rifle in northwest section of the Texas School Book Depository's sixth floor. -
1:30p.m. Malcolm Kilduff's Announcement
Acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff gives official announcement of President Kennedy's death. -
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The Day Kennedy was Assassinated
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12:58p.m. Oswald on the Move
Oswald on the Move- Oswald returns to his room at 1026 North Beckley Avenue in Oak Cliff to retrieve his pistol, then leaves minutes later to wait at a bus stop.