Modern Era · North America · Politics

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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Before and after in North America

Before: 1962: Andy Warhol shows Campbell's Soup Cans
After: January 1964: Cigarettes declared dangerous

Before and after in Politics

Before: October 16, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
After: July 2, 1964: Civil Rights Act signed

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.