Dallas County

The Presidential Motorcade along with a car ahead, and a car behind pulled onto Houston Street in Dallas, Texas, around 12:30 P.M. with President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nellie Connally, and Governor Connally. Like all Presidents, President Kennedy decided to take a nine day campaign tour which went to nine different states, and ended in Texas. November 21st, 1963, Kennedy and the First Lady departed on Air Force One for a two day, five city campaign tour, which went from San Antonio, to…

On November 22nd, 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was visiting Dallas Texas while preparing for his next presidential campaign. President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife Nellie Connolly were all four riding together in the President’s limousine. Closely following them was another limousine filled of secret service agents, the only agent that was armed was George Hickey. Agent Hickey was armed with an AR-15, his rifle was loaded with rounds encased by copper…

The Life and Death of JFK: How One Man’s Death Changed the Lives of Millions The third bullet sliced through John Kennedy’s thatch of thick reddish-brown hair. It cut a neat hole through his scalp and perforated his scalp. The velocity, and the physics of death did the rest. The right side of the presidents skull blew out-exploded, really- tearing open his scalp, and spewing skull fragments, blood, and brains several feet into the air where it hung for a few seconds, suspended in a pink cloud.…

11-22-63 by stephen king is a sci fi look into history, exploring what could have happened on that tragic day, when our 35th president of the united states was assassinated by lee harvey oswald. our story begins with jake, who has just learned that the local diner has a portal that can them back to exactly september 9,1958, 11:58, meeting a strange fellow that al calls the yellow card man, because of his yellow card. this is when al tells him that he has been trying to stop the assassination…

Sirhan Sirhan Did He Do It Khari K. Campbell Penta Career Center  Sirhan Sirhan Did He Do It Senator Kennedy died on June 6, 1968, one day after the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he had been celebrating victory in the California primary of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had just delivered his victory address in the ballroom and was taking a shortcut out of the hotel through the crowded kitchen when Sirhan stepped forward and opened fire.…

In November 22 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated; two bullets got him, one in the head and another in the neck. Lee Harvey Oswald was the main suspect for the assassination and a commission to investigate the matter concluded that Oswald was acting alone. However, two days after the assassination, a night club owner, Jack Ruby, shot dead Oswald on live television. Killing the main suspect only meant one thing; that the death of the key suspect denied Americans a fair criminal…

perceiver through any hardships thrown my way. Our townhome was located in a suburb of South Dallas called Pleasant Grove. The surrounding homes and community were not the safest environment to raise children. Most nights we would lose sleep listening to the bellowing of emergency sirens. It distresses me to know that the town I once spent a partial amount of my childhood in is now considered “the projects” of Dallas. I grew up to the sight of my family members getting robbed at gun and knife…

One of the cities I believe millennials love the most is Austin, Tx. That might sound weird considering the stereotypical millennial and the stereotypes surrounding Texas. Millennials are more liberal, artsy, young, hipster, nonreligious, and open to change, whereas Texas is stereotyped as old, southern, conservative, dogmatic, traditionalist, and pious protestant christian. So, why would a millennial think anything remotely related to Texas, let alone a Texas city, would be cool? Well, Austin,…

In 1963, the president of the United States, was brutally murdered by being shot while in a motorcade driving down Elm Street in Dallas, Texas as he was campaigning to be re-elected. The FBI say that Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. Marine, fired off 3 shots at the car in which the president was riding in the back of with his wife, the Governor of Texas, John Connally and his wife also. As the vehicle with the Kennedys and Connallys drove past the Texas School Book Depository building, Oswald…

35th president of the U.S and a democrat. Another famous name going around was Lee Harvey Oswald, who was the assassin of JFK. Lee would also kill officer J.D Tippit, who thought Oswald was very suspicious. This all took place in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Inside of the Texas School Book Depository on the sixth floor, is where Oswald shot President Kennedy. Before so, JFK was deciding whether or not to campaign in Texas, even though he needed to if he want to reelect for president. He…