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Thursday, November 21, 2013

50th Anniversary (Nov 22,1963 - Nov 22,2013)of the JFK Assassination Friday Nov 22,2013


President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, pause during a wreath laying ceremony in honor of President John F. Kennedy, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington.


On Nov 22,2013 Friday will see a series of commemorations, with the focus on Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas, where the assassination occurred and an assassination museum has been built. An estimated 5,000 people are expected to attend. Around 900 journalists from around the world had registered their plans to cover the ceremony


In Boston, Massachusetts, where JFK was born, several events are planned including church services, concerts and the opening of an exhibit with personal artefacts of the 35th president that have never been shown in public


U.S. President Barack Obama ordered flags to be lowered to half mast, noting that JFK had “called a generation to service and summoned a nation to greatness.”

JFK Assassination Friday Nov 22,1963

John Fitzgerald Kennedy,the 35th President of USA was assassionated at 12.3 P.M on Friday Nov 22,1963
in Dealey Plaza,Dallas,Texas


JFK was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline,Texas Governor John Connaly and his wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade

A ten-month investigation in 1963–64 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.

Although the Commission's conclusions were initially supported by a majority of the American public, polls conducted between 1966 and 2003 found that as many as 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up

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