On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30PM, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza Kennedy was riding with his wife Jackie, Texas governor, John Connally and Connally’s wife when he was fatally shot by former Lee Harvey Oswald, firing in ambush from a nearby building.
Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack. The motorcade rushed to a nearby hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting; Connally recovered.
Oswald was arrested by the Dallas Police department 70 minutes after the initial shooting. Oswald was charged under Texas state law with the murder of Kennedy, as well as that of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit, who had been fatally shot a short time after the assassination.
At 11:21AM November 24, 1963, as live television cameras were covering his transfer from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby.
Oswald was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he soon died. Ruby was convicted of Oswald’s murder, though it was later overturned on appeal, and Ruby died in prison in 1967 while awaiting a new trial.
