On This Day: November 22nd - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Was Assassinated

On this day in the year 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a gunshot in Dallas TX. The the 35th president of the United States of America was shot in the head while sitting in the back of a convertible that was driving through the city. His wife Jacqueline Kennedy was sitting next to him when he with shot. The assassin was identified as Lee Harvey Oswald and he shot the president while stationed inside a building. Lee Harvey Oswald was an ex-Marine and strongly disagreed with John F. Kennedy's people want as a radical right wing conservative. John F. Kennedy was 46 years old when he was assassinated on this day. Soon after his vice-president Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the next president of United States. As Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred to another prison demand and named Jack Ruby shot and killed him. Many conspiracies formed after the Kennedy assassination but the official Warren Commission report of 1964 found that no conspiracy was evident. Theories about a conspiracy behind the assassination were still prevalent even after this report. John F. Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended the London School of Economics, Princeton University, Harvard College and Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was a Roman Catholic and served in the military from 1941 to 1945. As president of the United States he dealt with many issues including civil rights, communism, immigration, Cuba and Vietnam.