November 22, 1963

November 22, 1963 (Friday) – Dallas, Texas 12:00 p.m. CST – President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade enters Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
12:30 p.m. – Shots are fired as the presidential limousine passes the Texas School Book Depository. President Kennedy is struck in the neck and head.
Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
Secret Service agent Clint Hill leaps onto the back of the limousine.

12:33 p.m. – The limousine races to Parkland Memorial Hospital (5-minute drive).
12:36 p.m. – Kennedy arrives at Trauma Room 1.
1:00 p.m. – Doctors officially pronounce John F. Kennedy dead (cause: gunshot wound to the brain).
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is informed he is now President.
1:33 p.m. – Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit is shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in the Oak Cliff neighborhood (approx. 45 minutes after the assassination).
1:40 p.m. – Oswald is arrested inside the Texas Theatre after a brief scuffle.
1:50 p.m. – White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff announces Kennedy’s death to the press at Parkland Hospital (“President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time”).
2:00 p.m. – Oswald is charged with the murder of Officer Tippit.
2:38 p.m. – Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field, Dallas (administered by federal judge Sarah T. Hughes; Jacqueline Kennedy, still in blood-stained pink suit, stands beside him).
2:47 p.m. – Air Force One departs Dallas for Washington, D.C., carrying both President Johnson and Kennedy’s bronze casket.
5:58 p.m. EST – Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
Evening – Kennedy’s body is taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital for autopsy (arrives ~6:35 p.m. EST).
Oswald is interrogated throughout the night at Dallas Police headquarters.
11:26 p.m. CST – Dallas police formally charge Lee Harvey Oswald with the murder of President Kennedy.

November 23, 1963 (Saturday) All day – Lee Harvey Oswald is interrogated (no lawyer present for most sessions; no recordings or transcripts).
Morning – Autopsy on President Kennedy concludes at Bethesda (gunshot wounds confirm two bullets struck him from behind and above).
Afternoon – Kennedy’s body is brought to the East Room of the White House and placed in a casket on the same catafalque used for Abraham Lincoln.
Evening – The White House announces a state funeral on Monday, November 25, with the body to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.

November 24, 1963 (Sunday) 11:21 a.m. CST – While being transferred from Dallas Police headquarters to the county jail, Lee Harvey Oswald is shot on live national television by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of the police building.
1:07 p.m. CST – Lee Harvey Oswald is pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital (exactly 48 hours after Kennedy died in the same hospital).
Afternoon – Kennedy’s flag-draped casket is moved in a horse-drawn caisson from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda.
~3:00 p.m. EST – The casket is placed on the Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda. The Rotunda opens to the public for mourning (hundreds of thousands will file past over the next 18 hours).

November 25, 1963 (Monday) – National Day of Mourning –All morning – The public continues to file past Kennedy’s closed casket in the Capitol Rotunda.
10:00–10:45 a.m. EST – Private funeral Mass for family and dignitaries at the Capitol (Cardinal Richard Cushing officiates).
11:00 a.m. – Procession from the Capitol to St. Matthew’s Cathedral (horse-drawn caisson, black riderless horse “Black Jack” with boots reversed in stirrups, Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy walking behind).
11:55 a.m.–12:25 p.m. – Requiem Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral (attended by 1,000+ dignitaries, including heads of state from over 100 countries).
Famous moment: 3-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket as it leaves the cathedral.
~1:00 p.m. – The casket is taken to Arlington National Cemetery.
3:07 p.m. EST – Military funeral service at Arlington. Eternal flame is lit by Jacqueline Kennedy.
3:34 p.m. – President Kennedy is buried.

Television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) provided continuous live coverage from Friday afternoon through Monday (a first in TV history).
Lee Harvey Oswald never stood trial; Jack Ruby was later convicted of his murder (conviction overturned; Ruby died in prison in 1967 before retrial).

TV stations suspend commercials and programming for non-stop coverage after Kennedy assassination

770 KXA Audio/November 22, 1963 (Kennedy Assassination Bulletins)

TV & Radio Schedules Altered By News Of Kennedy Assassination

Kennedy-Era Newscast: 9/5/62 – 1300 KOL

Jason Remington

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