THIS DAY IN HISTORY NOVEMBER 22 & Nov 23

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NOV 22 ND

1963
John F. Kennedy assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.

First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas on November 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas? Parkland Hospital. He was 46.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States at 2:39 p.m. He took the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy, who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband?s blood. Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.

The next day, November 23, President Johnson issued his first proclamation, declaring November 25 to be a day of national mourning for the slain president. On that Monday, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Washington to watch a horse-drawn caisson bear Kennedy?s body from the Capitol Rotunda to St. Matthew?s Catholic Cathedral for a requiem Mass. The solemn procession then continued on to Arlington National Cemetery, where leaders of 99 nations gathered for the state funeral. Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.


Lee Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans in 1939, joined the U.S. Marines in 1956. He was discharged in 1959 and nine days later left for the Soviet Union, where he tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen. He worked in Minsk and married a Soviet woman and in 1962 was allowed to return to the United States with his wife and infant daughter. In early 1963, he bought a .38 revolver and rifle with a telescopic sight by mail order, and on April 10 in Dallas he allegedly shot at and missed former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker, a figure known for his extreme right-wing views. Later that month, Oswald went to New Orleans and founded a branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro organization. In September 1963, he went to Mexico City, where investigators allege that he attempted to secure a visa to travel to Cuba or return to the USSR. In October, he returned to Dallas and took a job at the Texas School Book Depository Building.

Less than an hour after Kennedy was shot, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his rooming house in Dallas. Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theater by police responding to reports of a suspect. He was formally arraigned on November 23 for the murders of President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.

On November 24, Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure. As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot from a concealed .38 revolver. Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed that rage at Kennedy?s murder was the motive for his action. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder.


Jack Ruby, originally known as Jacob Rubenstein, operated strip joints and dance halls in Dallas and had minor connections to organized crime. He features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In his trial, Ruby denied the allegation and pleaded innocent on the grounds that his great grief over Kennedy?s murder had caused him to suffer ?psychomotor epilepsy? and shoot Oswald unconsciously. The jury found Ruby guilty of ?murder with malice? and sentenced him to die.

In October 1966, the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds of improper admission of testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time. In January 1967, while awaiting a new trial, to be held in Wichita Falls, Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital.

The official Warren Commission report of 1964 concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate President Kennedy. Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was ?probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy? that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime. The committee?s findings, as with those of the Warren Commission, continue to be widely disputed.


MUSIC 1975
KC and the Sunshine band top the U.S. pop charts with ?That?s The Way (I Like It)?
One of the most popular American pop groups of its time, KC and the Sunshine Band earned the second of their five #1 pop hits on this day in 1975 when ?That?s The Way (I Like It)? reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.With their breakthrough single, ?Get Down Tonight? (1975), ...read more

GENERAL INTEREST 1990
Margaret Thatcher resigns
Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minister in British history, announces her resignation after 11 years in Britain?s top office.Margaret Hilda Roberts was born in Grantham, England, in 1925. In 1959, after marrying businessman Denis Thatcher and giving birth to twins, she ...read more

GENERAL INTEREST 1718
Blackbeard killed off North Carolina
Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolina?s Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy force sent from Virginia.Believed to be a native of England, Edward Teach likely began his pirating career in 1713, when he became a crewman aboard a ...read more

WORLD WAR II 1942
Soviets encircle Germans at Stalingrad
On this day in 1942, a Soviet counteroffensive against the German armies pays off as the Red Army traps about a quarter-million German soldiers south of Kalach, on the Don River, within Stalingrad. As the Soviets? circle tightened, German General Friedrich Paulus requested ...read more

VIETNAM WAR 1967
Westmoreland claims U.S. victory at Dak To
General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, briefs officials at the Pentagon and says that the battle around Dak To was ?the beginning of a great defeat for the enemy.?The battle for Dak To began on November 3 when 4,500 U.S. troops from ...read more


VIETNAM WAR 1963
JFK assassinated in Dallas
On this day, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.Kennedy took office on January 20, 1961. From the start of his term, he was faced with a deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia, in which both Laos and South Vietnam were threatened by communist insurgencies. ...read more

VIETNAM WAR 1972
First B-52 shot down over North Vietnam
The United States loses its first B-52 of the war. The eight-engine bomber was brought down by a North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile near Vinh on the day when B-52s flew their heaviest raids of the war over North Vietnam. The Communists claimed 19
B-52 s shot down to date. ...read more

SPORTS 1986
Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ in history
On November 22, 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson knocks out 33-year-old Trevor Berbick in just five minutes and 35 seconds to become the youngest titleholder ever. ?I?m the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history,? Tyson told his manager after the fight, ?and I?m going to be ...read more

PRESIDENTIAL 1963
Kennedy becomes fourth president to be assassinated
On this day in 1963, the nation is shocked by the assassination of its president, John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was riding in an open car in Dallas, Texas, when a gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at him from an upper-level window of a nearby building. Kennedy was ...read more

OLD WEST 1916
Jack London dies of kidney disease
Jack London, one of the best novelists to chronicle the last wild western frontier of Alaska, dies from kidney failure in Glen Ellen, California.Born in San Francisco in 1876, John Griffith London was the child of an unmarried mother who had come from a once wealthy family that ...read more

LITERARY 1819
George Eliot is born
Mary Ann Evans, later known as George Eliot, is born on this day in Warwickshire, England.Eliot attended several schools until her mother?s death in 1841, after which she moved to Coventry with her father. In Coventry, Eliot grew close with her neighbors, the radical intellectual ...read more



HOLLYWOOD 2002
Die Another Day released 40 years after first Bond film
On this day in 2002, the James Bond movie Die Another Day, starring Pierce Brosnan as the fictional British secret service agent also known by his code number, 007, opens in theaters across the United States. The film?s debut came almost exactly 40 years after the first Bond ...read more

DISASTER 1950
Commuter trains collide in New York City
Two Long Island Railroad (LIRR) commuter trains collide on this day in 1950, killing 79 people. Defective equipment caused this horrific rear-end collision, the worst in the history of the LIRR.The accident occurred in the Richmond Hills section of Queens. A 12-car train carrying ...read more

CRIME 1963
President Kennedy is assassinated
President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed as his motorcade drives through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy?s suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was believed to have used a mail-order rifle in order to shoot the president from the sixth story window of the Texas ...read more

COLD WAR 1963
Kennedy assassinated
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a visit to Dallas, Texas. His death caused intense mourning in the United States and brought Vice President Lyndon Johnson to the presidency. Kennedy?s untimely death also left future generations with a great many ?what if? ...read more

the War of Northern Aggression 1864
Hood enters Tennessee
On this day in 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in a desperate attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman out of Georgia.This movement was part of the saga of Hood?s Army of Tennessee in 1864. In the spring, the army, commanded then by Joseph ...read more

AUTOMOTIVE 1900
First Mercedes goes for a test drive
On this day in 1900, the first car to be produced under the Mercedes name is taken for its inaugural drive in Cannstatt, Germany. The car was specially built for its buyer, Emil Jellinek, an entrepreneur with a passion for fast, flashy cars. Jellinek had commissioned the Mercedes ...read more