The document is a collection of images related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. It includes images from Abraham Zapruder's film of the assassination, photos of Kennedy and his wife Jackie in Dallas that day, images documenting the aftermath of the shooting and investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald, photos from Kennedy's state funeral procession and burial at Arlington National Cemetery, and images of his gravesite in subsequent years.
9. Newly-elected President Kennedy posed for first pictures at his White House desk, January 21, 1961, before
plunging into a busy round of conferences. (AP Photo/Bill Achatz)
10. Kennedy and the first lady descend the stairs from Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas. Cecil Stoughton/John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
11. President Kennedy and the first lady receive an enthusiastic welcome as they arrive at Dallas Love Field on Nov.
22, 1963. Later that day, the president was assassinated as his motorcade moved through the city. Associated
Press file
13. The president and first lady arrive at Love Field in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Photo by Cecil Stoughton, White
House, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
14. A 10-mile drive through Dallas and a speech on national security at the Trade Mart awaited Kennedy as he, the
first lady, Texas Gov. John Connally and Nellie Connally departed Love Field on Nov. 22, 1963. Less than a hour
later, gunshots would shatter the president's plans and plunge the nation into grief. Tom Dillard/Dallas Morning
News
15. Kennedy's motorcade travels through downtown Dallas. Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
and Museum
16. Seen through the limousine's windshield as the car proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book
Depository, Kennedy appears to raise his hand toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot. Jacqueline
Kennedy holds the president's forearm in an effort to aid him Texas Gov. John Connally, who was in the seat in
front of the Kennedys, was woundedt. James W. Altgens, Associated Press file
17. President John F. Kennedy rides in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas on Nov.
22, 1963. Riding with Kennedy are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, left, and her husband,
Gov. John Connally of Texas. Associated Press file
20. Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president who slumps in the back seat of limousine as it speeds toward the
Stemmons Freeway. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill rides on the back of the car. James W. Altgenss, Associated
Press file
21. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill stands over the president as the limousine rushes toward the hospital seconds
after Kennedy was shot. In the jump seat, Nellie Connally bends over wounded Texas Gov. John Connally, and the
first lady tries to assist the mortally wounded president. Justin Newman, Associated Press file
22. Secret Service agent Clint Hill climbs into the back seat of the limousine a moment after Kennedy and Gov.
Connally were shot. The black arrow points to Nellie Connally, who is ducking bullets. The white arrow points
out the agent's foot, mistakenly thought to be the president's when the photo first ran. Associated Press file
23. As spectators lie on the ground in Dealey Plaza and cameramen roll their cameras, a motorcycle police officer
drives by immediately after the shooting. Tom Dillard/Dallas Morning News
24. This image of the interior of the convertible limousine used by Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was exhibit No. 346 in
the Warren Commission's investigation. Associated Press file
25. This photo released by the National Archives shows the bloodstained interior of the limousine. It was taken after
the vehicle was returned to Washington from Dallas and was part of nearly 50,000 photos and documents
released from the assassination investigation. AssociatedPress file
26. Jacqueline Kennedy with bloodstains
on her clothes stands next to Robert
Kennedy as Kennedy's coffin (not
visible) is placed in an ambulance
after arriving at Edwards Air Force
base Nov. 22, 1963. Associated Press
file
27. Her stockings and dress stained with blood, Jacqueline Kennedy reaches for the door of the ambulance carrying
her husband's body at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Nov. 22, 1963. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,
stands behind the first lady, who had just arrived from Dallas with the body aboard Air Force One. Associated
Press file
28. President Kennedy's casket is loaded onto Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas. Onlookers include Lawrence
"Larry" O'Brien, Jacqueline Kennedy and Dave Powers. Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and
Museum
29. Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president of the United States aboard Air Force One. He is
flanked by wife Lady Bird, left, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Keystone/Getty Images
30. The Texas School Book Depository building, which overlooks Dealey Plaza, quickly became the focus of law
enforcement as they began the manhunt for Kennedy's assassin. Dallas Police Department/Dallas Municipal
Archives
31. Men peer out the fifth floor window of the Depository building shortly after the assassination. It was the floor above
where an eyewitness reported seeing a man with a gun at the window before shots were fired. Tom Dillard/Dallas
Morning News
32. Dallas police discover a sniper's nest constructed from book boxes around a sixth-floor floor window in the
Texas School Book Depository. Dallas Police Department/Dallas Municipal Archives
33. According to the Warren Commission report, at 1:22 p.m., Dallas police found a Carcano rifle in a staircase
leading to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Fort Worth Star-Telegram
34. This photo of Oswald holding
a Carcano rifle in his backyard
at 214 Neeley St. in Dallas
was among evidence
gathered by police. Dallas
Police Department via Dallas
Morning News
35. With a police manhunt underway, Oswald had taken refuge in Dallas' Texas Theater, where police arrested
him. An unknown police officer points to the seat in which Oswald sat. McClatchy-Tribune
36. Oswald encountered and shot patrolman J.D. Tippit on a Dallas street. Tippit had identified Oswald as the suspect
police were looking for. Dallas Police Department/Dallas Municipal Archives
37. Police mugshots of Oswald from the Dallas Police Department/Dallas Municipal Archives. 00
38. Two unidentified Dallas police officers flank Oswald after his arrest. Oswald was arraigned in the murder of Dallas
police Officer J.D. Tippit. Dallas Police Department/Dallas Municipal Archives
39. A woman in New York reacts to the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Nov. 22, 1963. Stan Wayman Time
& Life Pictures/Getty Images
40. A woman buys a copy of the
Evening Standard from a street
vendor on Nov. 23, 1963. Trevor
Humphries, Central Press/Getty
Images)
41. Seven British national daily
newspapers in London blare the
news of John Kennedy's
assassination on the day he was
shot. Each front page carried an
Associated Press cable photo of
the scene in the president's car as
his wife, Jacqueline, bent over him
just after he was struck by bullets in
the neck and head. Associated
Press file
42. Two people in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park read coverage of the Kennedy assassination on Nov. 25,
1963. Keystone/Getty Images
43. With the Washington Monument in the background, a 76mm field artillery gun at Fort Myer, Va., fires at dawn
on Nov. 23, 1963. A gun fired each half-hour from dawn to dusk at each army and Marine Corps base to
render honor to the late commander in chief.
44. Surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the press as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police
station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of Kennedy on Nov. 23, 1963.
Oswald, who denied involvement in the shooting, was formally charged with murder. Associated Press file
45. Oswald is detained at police
headquarters in Dallas, where he
is held for questioning on Nov. 22,
1963. Fred Kaufman, Associated
Press file
46. Oswald, 24, holds up his
manacled hands as he is
led through the police
station. He had been
charged with murder in the
killing of a Dallas
policeman who sought to
arrest him in a theater
several miles from the
assassination scene.
Associated Press file
47. Oswald faces the media in a Dallas police station, where he repeatedly denied he had assassinated the president
the previous day. "I did not kill President Kennedy," he said. "I did not kill anyone. I don't know what this is all
about." He was brought before the press after formal charges of murder were filed against him. Associated Press
file
48. Jack Ruby approaches
and fires on Lee Harvey
Oswald as Oswald is
escorted to the Dallas
jail via the underground
garage on Nov. 24,
1963. Oswald was
escorted by Detectives
Jim Leavelle, left, who
is handcuffed to
Oswald, and L.C.
Graves. Oswald later
died at a hospital. Jack
Beers, Dallas Morning
News
49. Oswald winces as Ruby, foreground, shoots him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquarters
on Nov. 24, 1963. The plainclothes policeman at left is J.A. Leavelle. Bob Jackson, Dallas Times Herald
50. Oswald is placed on a stretcher after being shot in the stomach. Ruby shot and killed Oswald as the prisoner
was being transferred through the underground garage of Dallas police headquarters. David F. Smith,
Associated Press file
51. Detectives of the Dallas Police Department struggle with nightclub owner Jack Ruby after he shot Oswald in the
basement of the Dallas city jail Nov. 24, 1963. Associated Press file
52. An honor guard of Marines walks the driveway leading to the White House from Pennsylvania Avenue as
Kennedy's body is taken to the mansion Nov. 24, 1963.
54. Kennedy's funeral services card from White House staff files. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
55. A crowd gathers at the front of the U.S. Capitol, awaiting the moving of Kennedy's body to a place of honor in the
Capitol rotunda in 1963.
56. Kennedy's body is placed in the Capitol rotunda. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
57. Kennedy's casket lies in state at the White House on Nov. 23, 1963. Robert Knudsen, John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum
58.
59. Jacqueline Kennedy, flanked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, left, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
backs away from the casket in the Capitol rotunda Nov. 25, 1963. Associated Press file
60. Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter, Caroline, kneel before the casket as it lies in state in the rotunda of the Capitol.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
61. A horse-drawn caisson moves out of the Capitol plaza en route to St. Matthew's Cathedral for funeral services
Nov. 25, 1963. Associated Press file
64. From left: Sen. Edward
Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, 6,
Peter Lawford, Jackie
Kennedy, Attorney General
Robert Kennedy and John F.
Kennedy, Jr., 3.
Keystone/Getty Images
69. A black riderless horse with inverted cavalry boots in its stirrups, the military symbol of a fallen leader, is held by a
serviceman in the Capitol plaza before the start of the funeral procession through Washington. The horse
accompanied the caisson carrying the presidential casket on its last journey.
71. John F. Kennedy's cortege leaves the White House, November 1963.John Loengard Time & Life Pictures/Getty
Images
72. World leaders walk in the funeral procession as it leaves the White House. They include from left, front row:
Heinrich Lubke, West German president; French President Charles de Gaulle; Queen Frederika of Greece; King
Baudouin of Belgium; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; and President Diosdado Macapagal of the Philippines.
Associated Press file
73. The funeral cortege bearing the slain president's body crosses Memorial Bridge leading into Arlington National
Cemetery.
74. With the sound of creaking wheels and clattering hoofs breaking the silence, the President's caisson entered
Arlington Cemetery, passed the graves of American war heroes and headed toward the burial spot on a grassy
hill which looks over the Potomac.John Loengard Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
76. Robert Kennedy, followed by Sen. Edward Kennedy, escorts Jacqueline Kennedy during the burial ceremony Nov.
25, 1963. Abbie Rowe, National Parks Service/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
78. Jacqueline Kennedy and
Robert Kennedy at John F.
Kennedy's funeral, Arlington
Cemetery, November 25,
1963.Stan Wayman Time &
Life Pictures/Getty Images
79. A military officer salutes
Kennedy's grave as the
Eternal Flame burns at
Arlington National Cemetery
on Nov. 25, 1963. Associated
Press file
80. Family and chiefs of state pay their last respects. AFP/Getty Images
81. Mourners gather at Kennedy's flower-bedecked grave Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 27, 1963. Associated
Press file
82. Mourners file past Kennedy's grave on Nov. 27, 1963. Associated Press file
83. Men of all services hold their rifles at salute as President Lyndon Johnson carries a bouquet of red roses to
Kennedy's grave on Dec. 1, 1963. Maj. Gen. Philip C. Wehle, commander of the Military District of Washington,
walks with Johnson. Henry Burroughs, Associated Press file
84. Arlington, Virginia 2004 With the Washington Monument in the background, a group of soldiers are silhouetted
against the sky at the tomb of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, May 29,
2004 in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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