The last moments of the JFK presidency

Emil Lendof

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Nov 22, 2017

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy walk down the steps of Air Force One as they arrive at Love Field in Dallas

President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy walk down the steps of Air Force One as they arrive at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, less than an hour before his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. REUTERS

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FILE PHOTO: President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy arrive at Love Field

President and Mrs. Kennedy greet the mass of reporters and public officials waiting for them at Love Field in Dallas. REUTERS

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FILE PHOTO: The motorcade carrying President John F. Kennedy rolls through the streets of Dallas, Texas minutes before his assassination

The motorcade carrying President Kennedy rolls through the streets of Dallas. REUTERS

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally ride in a liousine moments before Kennedy was assassinated, in Dallas

President Kennedy, the first lady and Texas Gov. John Connally react to the crowds in the streets of Dallas. REUTERS

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FILE PHOTO: President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy moments before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas

Television footage of President and Mrs. Kennedy moments before shots rang out in Dallas. REUTERS

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John F Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas USA, 22 November 1963. Close-up view of President and Mrs Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife. Photographer: Victor Hugo King.

The last image of the Kennedys before he was shot Getty Images

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FILE PHOTO: Eyewitnesses to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy cover their children after shots were fired at the president in Dealey Plaza

Bill and Gayle Newman, civilian eyewitnesses to the assassination, protect their children as CBS News photographer Tom Craven and White House photographer Tom Atkins take pictures in Dealey Plaza after shots were fired at President Kennedy. REUTERS

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The moment when President Kennedy is struck by a bullet as he travels through Dallas in a motorcade. Getty Images

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The view from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, from which Lee Harvey Oswald is thought to have assassinated President Kennedy. This photograph was taken approximately one hour after the assassination. Getty Images

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secret Service agents and local police examine U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s presidential limousine as it sits parked at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas

Secret Service agents and local police examine the presidential limousine as it sits parked at Parkland Memorial Hospital under a sign reading “Ambulances Only” as President Kennedy is treated inside. REUTERS

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The front page of the New York American Journal, announcing that President Kennedy has been shot and is reportedly dead. Getty Images

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Lee Harvey Oswald is taken into custody by police after allegedly shooting President Kennedy in Dallas. Getty Images

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the presidential oath of office

Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the presidential oath of office from Judge Sarah T. Hughes (2nd from left) as President Kennedy’s widow, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy (right), listens aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas, just two hours after JFK was shot. REUTERS

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