{"id":85435,"date":"2025-11-22T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85435"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:32:56","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-1963-jfk-assassinated-in-dallas-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/on-this-day-in-history-1963-jfk-assassinated-in-dallas-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History: 1963 – JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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60 Facts About the JFK Assassination<\/a><\/h1>\n

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1.\u00a0 On Nov. 11, 1963, President Kennedy laid a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0<\/b>He would be buried at the cemetery exactly two weeks later.<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0<\/b>Jacqueline Kennedy<\/a>\u00a0rarely traveled with her husband on political trips but decided to fly with him to Texas on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0<\/b>On Nov. 22, the couple attended a breakfast in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

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5.<\/b>\u00a0The presidential open-top limousine had been flown in from D.C.<\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0<\/b>The morning of the assassination, the president\u2019s mother, Rose Kennedy, played golf in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, alongside her neighbor, baseball player Jimmy Piersall.<\/p>\n

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7.<\/b>\u00a0The last time JFK saw his father was in October in Hyannis Port. After saying goodbye, JFK said to his friend Dave Powers about his dad, who was wheelchair-bound after a stroke, \u201cHe\u2019s the one who made all this possible, and look at him now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0<\/b>A 14-year-old boy in Dallas reported watching JFK\u2019s face go blank around 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0<\/b>The boy also said he heard Jacqueline Kennedy shout, \u201cGod, oh God, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

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10.\u00a0<\/b>Texas Governor John Connally Jr. received multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

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Read the Remainder of the List HERE.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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