John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the
35th President of the United States, was
assassinated at 12:30 p.m.
Central Standard Time (18:30
UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in
Dealey Plaza,
Dallas,
Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by
Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling with his wife
Jacqueline,
Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife
Nellie, in a presidential
motorcade. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the
Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy, and that
Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial. Kennedy's death marked the fourth and latest successful assassination of an American President. Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson became President upon Kennedy's death, taking the constitutionally prescribed
oath of office onboard
Air Force One at Dallas'
Love Field airport before departing for Washington, D.C.