President John Fitzgerlad Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, while riding in a presidential motorcade with his wife Jackie Kennedy through Dallas Texas. At 12.30pm local time, lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, ambushed the motorcade from a nearby building, fatally shooting the US president and Texas governor John Connally. Just 70 minutes after the attack, Oswald was apprehended by police and was executed on live TV the following day by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while being transferred from the city jail to the county jail.
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