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1963
JFK assassinated in Dallas
November 22, 1963
At 12:30 in the afternoon, as his motorcade moved through Dealey Plaza, rifle shots struck the president in the neck and head. Jackie Kennedy crawled across the limousine trunk. An hour later he was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital. A nation watching television fell into a kind of public mourning it had never known.
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