The President is Shot

On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy flew to Texas to give several political speeches.

The next day, as his car drove slowly past cheering crowds in Dallas, shots rang out. Kennedy was seriously wounded and died a short time later.

Within a few hours of the shooting, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald and charged him with the murder.

On November 24, another man, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald, thus silencing the only person who could have offered more information about this tragic event.

The Warren Commission was organized to investigate the assassination and to clarify the many questions which remained.