JFK

On November 22, 1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. It was his last stop on his tour through Texas. On this day he refused to use a protective cover on his convertible in his motorcade. That decision proved to be a fatal one as Lee Harvey Oswald, a mentally ill man shot President Kennedy from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The impact of the assassination of JFK washed the …

…were large community services in schools all across the United States. In other countries like Mexico, there were condolence books put outside the Embassies for people to sign. Stores and homes were decorated with American flags, pictures of JFK, or black sashes in remembrance and mourning of JFK. There was no split of party lines in the mourning of JFK. “Here is our leader, you have to get behind him not matter what, especially in