Oswald fled the scene on foot, and Tippit died from his gunshot wounds. When Officer Tippit tried to question Oswald, Oswald shot Tippit four times with a revolver. Tippit, after hearing the assassin’s description, stopped Oswald on a street corner. Police determined that the person that matched the description might be an employee of the Texas Book Depository named Lee Harvey Oswald.Ī few hours after the assassination, Dallas Police Officer J. A witness who saw the male assassin fire the last shot from the building gave police a physical description. Subsequently, police officers found an Italian bolt-action rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository. Witnesses claimed the shots came from a nearby building called the Texas Book Depository. The Dallas Police immediately began searching the area for signs of the assassin. The President died before arriving at the hospital, and the Governor survived after receiving emergency surgery.
After the three shots, the driver of the President’s limousine sped to a local hospital in a desperate attempt to get emergency medical treatment for the President and the Texas Governor. The second bullet missed the vehicle, but the third bullet struck the President in the back of the head. After Kennedy’s limousine slowly passed a building called the Texas School Book Depository, three shots were fired at the limousine from a distance of approximately 60 metres.Īs President Kennedy waved to the crowd on his right, the first bullet entered his upper back, exited through his throat, and entered Texas Governor John Connally, penetrating his back, chest, and right wrist.
The President’s wife (Jacqueline), Texas Governor John Connally, Governor Connally’s wife, and a driver were also in the vehicle. President Kennedy was riding in an open-top limousine in a presidential motorcade through Dallas, Texas. Because he was fatally wounded by two gunshots, ballistic evidence was important in the forensic investigation. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States of America (USA), occurred on Friday, November 22, 1963.
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