John Connally

John Bowden Connally Jr. was given birth on February 2, 1917, by John Bowden Connally Sr. and Lela Wright Connally, in Floresville, Texas. He went to Floresville High school, he later went to the University of Texas, where received his undergraduate and law degree. He also became president of the UT Student Association, and his passion for politics sparked. While attending college there, he met Idanell Nellie Brill in 1940, to which he later married and had four kids with. While serving the military during World War II, he took maximum advantage of his background as an attorney to obtain a position of Secretary of the Navy James V Forrestal, in a legal way. After, Connally was assigned to General Dwight D. Eisenhower who was located in North…

On the twenty second of November 1963, the 35th president of the United States John F Kennedy was assassinated before his third year in office. The gruesome and unexpected act took place in Dallas Texas, as the president traveled in a four-door convertible limousine. Along with him, his wife Jackie, Texas governor John Connally, and Connally wife Nellie traveled. The meeting was to discuss conflicts in the democratic party between liberal Ralph Yarborough and Don. At 12:30 pm the president was…

“If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why to worry about it” - John F.Kennedy, the morning of his death. John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United State. He was elected in 1960 by the Democratic Party. During his presidency, Kennedy had done a lot of effective jobs, such as The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Civil…

Who Killed John F. Kennedy? 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 says 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 the 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…

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas Texas, dealey plaza from the sixth floor of an open window of the Texas school book depository building. As the presidential motorcade was driving down Dealey Plaza Oswald Fired three shots at the presidential motorcade injuring both President Kennedy and Governor John Connally. This paper is going to be about the assassination of JFK, and if Oswald killed jfk or not. because oswald was not identified as…

President Kennedy’s Assassination On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy paraded through downtown Dallas, Texas, in a motorcade. He was shot and killed in his convertible as many watched helplessly in the crowd. The car rushed to Parkland Hospital, just a few miles away. Doctors tried valiantly to save him. But they couldn't. Within hours, the body was flown in Air Force One to the Navy Medical Center in Washington D.C. Americans mourned for their president John F. Kennedy. …

The John F. Kennedy Assassination happened 50 years ago, yet it is still a highly controversial topic. Many believe that there could have been a second shooter or that the mob put a hit on the president. There are many speculations to what really happened, but first you have to sort the facts from the fiction. During the time that President Kennedy was in the White House, his administration saw some astounding events that could have caused the tensions leading up to the assassination. During…

The Impact of the JFK Assassination On the morning of November 22, 1963, Janice Tainter was sitting in her sixth grade class along with other fellow students. When asked what were some vivid details about where she was she said “I remember what direction and even the color of the black board inside the class”. She later explained the color of the blackboard was green. She also explained how she and her classmates received the information. She clearly states “The P.A. system (intercom)…

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air we all cherish our children’s future. And we are all moral.” John F. Kennedy. November 22 ,1963, is a day that will be marked down as one of the worst murders in history. There are many conspiracies that are associated with with the murder of our thirty-fifth president, John F. Kennedy, some believe that one single lunatic is responsible. Others believe there is more to it, that there was a deeper plan…

The Assassin Becomes the Assassinated On November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is assassinated at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald fires three shots from a 6.5 mm Carcano Model 91/38 carbine at the President; the first shot penetrates through the President’s throat, then the second shot pierces through the head. President Kennedy is announced dead 30 minutes after the shooting. Oswald is found 20…