Today marks the 57th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy of the United States of America.
President Kennedy, the 35th President of one of the most powerful countries in the world - the U.S.A., is the last and fourth President of the United States to be killed in the assassination. Since the nineteenth century, several attempts have been made to assassinate the President of the United States. Four of the Presidents were killed: President Abraham Lincoln, President James Garfield, President William McKinley, and President John F. Kennedy. Two Presidents were wounded after the assassination attempt: President Theodore Roosevelt and President Ronald Reagan.
To commemorate the anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, let us return to the other Presidents of the United States who died in the assassination.
Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln is the first President of the United States killed in an assassination. He was shot by a well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while the President is at Ford's Theater at Washington DC. Booth was disappointed then following the defeat of the Confederacy inwar.
April 14, 1865, 10:15 PM when Booth shot the President in the back of the head with a .44 caliber. Booth stabbed Lincoln's colleague Officer Henry Rathbone. Lincoln was pronounced dead the next day, 7:22 p.m. More than 10,000 troops pursued Booth, one of the largest manhunt in history. He was caught in Virginia with accomplice David Herold. Booth will be ready to fight he was shot by one of the troops on April 26, 1865 which killed him immediately.
James Garfield
President James Garfield was shot by writer and lawyer Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. using a.442 Webley British Bulldog revolver on July 2, 1881, 9:30 p.m. A few weeks later, the President passed away due to complications caused by the infection from the gunshot wound.
Authorities immediately arrested Guiteau. He was tried from November 14, 1881 to January 25, 1882 where he was convicted 'guilty' and sentenced to death. Guiteau was hanged on June 30, 1882, two days before the anniversary of the assassination. Guiteau is believed to have mental problems. Guiteau believes he plays a big role in Garfield's victory in the presidency so he is seeking a position from the Garfield administration. The assassin was disappointed after the Paris or Vienna consulate was not granted to him.
William McKinley
While shaking hands with the public, he was shot using Iver Johnson revolver by anarchist Leo Czolgosz President McKinley on September 6, 1901 at 4:07 p.m. The President is currently attending the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music, Buffalo, New York City. A week later, the President passed away due to complications.
Czolgosz lost his job due to the economic depression of 1893. As a result, he was persuaded to join anarchism, believing that government was unnecessary and unimportant. For Czolgosz, President McKinley was the symbol of oppression. Czolgosz was arrested and sentenced to death by electric chair on October 29, 1901.
John F. Kennedy
President Kennedy was the fourth and final President killed in assassination. November 22, 1963, 12:30 PM. He was shot by a former U.S. Marines Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The President was at the presidential motorcade with his wife Jacqueline and Governor John Connally of Texas and his wife Nellie. The President was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital but was pronounced dead at 1:00 PM.
Oswald was immediately arrested by Dallas Police Department November 24, 1963, while jail moves Oswald, he was shot by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. Ruby was arrested and imprisoned but died in 1967 while awaiting sentencing. Various conspiracy theories have covered the death of President Kennedy.
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November 22, 1963. The 35th President of the United States, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot. President Kennedy is the fourth and last President to be killed in the assassination.
The President was in Texas at the time as part of his plans for the coming 1964 U.S. Presidential Election. November 21, before the incident, President Kennedy went with his wife Jacqueline, and U.S. Vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson in Texas for a two-day five-city trip to that state. The President was warmly welcomed in San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth, where the President spent the night. From Fort Worth, the President headed in Dallas, Texas.
At Dallas's Love Field Airport the President rode an open limousine with his wife and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie. The President was on his way to the Trade Mart for a speech. An estimated 200,000 people warmly welcomed the passing of the President. People filled the 16-kilometer road to Trade Mart.
As the presidential motorcade crossed Dealey Plaza, gunfire erupted from the sixth floor of a nearby Texas School Book Depository. The bullet struck the President in the neck, piercing his throat. A locust hit President Kennedy on Governor Connally's shoulder and wrist, hitting his thigh. The limousine was immediately rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Just 30 minutes later, the President was declared dead. The governor is safe.
The bullet casings were found in an open window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. A rifle was also seen on the sixth floor. Building staff reported missing its employee Lee Harvey Oswald, 24 years old and embraced Marxism ideology. Oswald's description was immediately spread so that he could be pursued.
Oswald escaped to the boardinghouse. Less than 15 minutes later, Dallas police identified him as J. D. Tippit. Oswald immediately shot Tippit, who was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital but was also killed. The perpetrator quickly fled to the Texas Theater where he was apprehended by authorities past 1:50 p.m.
To avoid further destabilization of the US government of the Soviet Union or any enemy of the country, power was immediately transferred to Vice-president Lyndon Johnson. Before leaving Dallas, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States on November 22, 2:38 P.M. in Air Force One. Johnson was next to Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, still wearing bloody clothes. President Kennedy's remains were also loaded on the plane.
Oswald was never able to face trial. Two days after the President's death, nightclub operator Jack Ruby shot Oswald as he was transferred from Dallas City Hall to the county jail. Ruby was immediately arrested and convicted of murder on March 14, 1964. While awaiting trial, Ruby passed away on January 3, 1967.
In a ten-month investigation conducted by the Warren Commission or President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, it appears that Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, that he did it alone, and alone. Ruby also killed Oswald. This is also the result of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
To this day, various conspiracy theories still contain the assassination of President Kennedy. In surveys conducted from 1966 to 2004, 80% of Americans believed that there was a real attempt on President Kennedy's life and that there was a cover-up in the assassination.