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November 22.1963


John F. Kennedy visits Dallas Texas in 1960 he nearly carried that state


against then vice president Richard Nixon The reason President Kennedy
came to Dallas that morning on November 22, 1963. to clear up a spilt in the democratic party between the liberal and conservative wings of the Democratic party/

The young president had been in office less than three years.
In these years the president faced the ole miss crisis. cuba missle crisis facing a showdown with the Soviet Union. Any civil rights bill the president would try to implement would be shot down by dixicrats in the south.
over their deployment of missiles in Cuba.
The president seek to bring the conservative and liberal wing of the Democratic party together so it would t threaten his run for re-election in ing the presidents imousine was the Democratic Governor of Texas, John Connally, and his wife Nellie. Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird rode in a following limousine accompanied by Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough.

The motorcade approaching the end of the Texas School Book Depository Building. Suddenly the sound of three shots

rang out and people began running and screaming..
panic spread thround immediately gh out the area,
As spectators ran or fell to the ground in self-protection, the motorcade accelerated to top speed and raced to near-by

once arriving at
Parkland Hospital. The president was was still breathing. his personal doctor told doctor Slayer that he had Addison so adrenalin was pumped into his blood system.
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Governor Connally or Jackie Kennedy was not hurt at all.,The president’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, fled the scene. About forty-five minutes later, Oswald was confronted by a police officer on a Dallas street. Oswald was shot and killed by the killed the officer
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