Kennedy and the Press John F. Kennedy and PT John F. November 22, Death of the President. Shortly after noon on November 22, , President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
Campaigning in Texas A month later, the president addressed Democratic gatherings in Boston and Philadelphia.
Morning in Fort Worth A light rain was falling on Friday morning, November 22, but a crowd of several thousand stood in the parking lot outside the Texas Hotel where the Kennedys had spent the night. The Assassination Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedys. The President's Funeral That same day, President Kennedy's flag-draped casket was moved from the White House to the Capitol on a caisson drawn by six grey horses, accompanied by one riderless black horse.
As people throughout the nation and the world struggled to make sense of a senseless act and to articulate their feelings about President Kennedy's life and legacy, many recalled these words from his inaugural address: All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration. The House Select Committee on Assassinations The US House of Representatives established the House Select Committee on Assassinations in to reopen the investigation of the assassination in light of allegations that previous inquiries had not received the full cooperation of federal agencies.
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Relation Container Digid. Rights Access Restrictions. Rights Access Restriction Note. Subseries Name. Series Name. Description Historical Note. Subject Organization. Subject Person. End Date. October 4th through October 8th the storm hit Cuba where it did a tremendous amount of damage. The reports of the death toll vary between about 6, and 8,, making it one of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the Atlantic in the 20th Century.
It also did millions of dollars worth of damage and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings throughout the Caribbean. Alcatraz, located in the San Francisco Bay, is first explored by Juan Manuel de Ayala who named it after the pelicans that inhabited the island in The United States government bought the island in After that it was turned into a military prison, in the U.
Army demolished the fort and began building a prison which was finished in In control of the the island was transferred to the United States Department of Justice. The Justice Department turned it into a maximum security prison which began operating on July 1 , The prison at Alcatraz, known as "The Rock," was intended to house the most unruly and dangerous prisoners from other facilities.
Due to the high cost of daily maintenance and repairs, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes on March 21st , In November of , a group of Native American protesters claimed the island as native land and demanded that it be turned into a Native American cultural center.
The occupation ended in June of after Federal Marshals removed remaining occupiers from the island. In it was declared a National Historic Landmark. NASA loses contact with the Mariner 2 spacecraft on January 3rd , bringing an end to the successful mission. The Mariner 2 spacecraft had been launched on August 27 , In December of it became the first mission to successfully observe another planet when it flew past Venus.
Before contact was lost, it had transmitted data back to Earth about the temperature, atmosphere, magnetic fields, and radiation of Venus. The Soviet Union launches the Vostok 6 spacecraft, carrying Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.
The Soviet Union launches the Vostok 6 spacecraft during June. The mission carried cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova as she became the first woman in space. What happened to JFK's brain? Kennedy, Aldous Huxley and C.
Lewis all died on the same day Nov. The Kennedy assassination kept his death out the headlines of most newspapers. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World , was at the forefront of the counterculture's experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his work The Doors of Perception.
He died later that day. June 17 - The Supreme Court ruled that laws requiring reciting The Lord's Prayer or Bible versus in public schools were unconstitutional. Please send and additions or corrections to Editor popculturemadness. Nor do we link to sites that have excessive Pop-ups, spyware or inappropriate all ages material. If you find one, please let us know and they are toast! Thelonious Monk releases "Monk In Tokyo," which was called "rough, raw, and punchy" by critics.
The ever-coy "Mona Lisa" is exhibited for the first time in the U. The cult sci-fi series "Dr. Who" premieres on BBC. William Hartnell is the first of 11 actors to play the doctor. Kurt Vonnegut releases his fourth book, Cat's Cradle.
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