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John F. Kennedy was an American politician and served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

Incident & Death
In Dealey Plaza located at Dallas, TX, Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally and Connally's wife Nellie, while William Greer is the driver. Very shortly before the shot, First Lady of Texas Nellie Conally told Kennedy "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you", Kennedy then replied his last words, "No, you certainly can't".

At 12:30 pm, Kennedy was fatally shot on the neck by a former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald with a 6.5 mm Carcano rifle from the sixth floor at Dealey Plaza. John Connally also has been injured of a gunshot wound on the left shoulder and said "Oh, no, no, no. My God. They're going to kill us all!" Kennedy then got hit on the head, damaging the skull and brain. First Lady Jacqueline's clothes were blood-stained, wearing her Pink Chanel suit. It was so severe that blood even spattered on front of the Secret Service Car.

15 minutes after Kennedy was shot, Oswald shot policeman J.D. Tippit in the chest, one in the stomach, another in his right temple. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1 pm and Tippit as well at 1:25 pm.

Just at 1:40 pm, Oswald was arrested for murdering Kennedy and Tippit. He was at Texas Theatre, where the movie "War is Hell" was playing. Oswald sneaked into the theater without paying.

Aftermath
No radio or television stations broadcast the assassination live, meaning that media of the assassination is partially found. But there was a silent color 8mm film known as the Zapruder film, shot by Abraham Zapruder. It was first publicly shown at the trial of Clay Shaw in 1969, and on television in 1975.

Still photos were taken by Phillip Willis, Mary Moorman, Hugh W. Betzner Jr., Wilma Bond, Robert Croft, and many others. Ike Altgens, a photo editor for the Associated Press in Dallas, was the only professional photographer in Dealey Plaza who was not in the press cars.

Two days after the assassination of Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, causing him to be unconscious with witnesses by millions of people who are watching on NBC. Police detective Billy Combest suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: "Jack, you son of a bitch!"

In 1964, Robert H. Jackson of the Dallas Times Herald was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his image of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.