2023-11-20 16:39:41
Dallas ∙ US President John F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin 60 years ago, on November 22, 1963, near Daley Plaza in downtown Dallas while riding in a car with first wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie.
The dark shadow of what has been described as the darkest day in Dallas history haunts the city. Gail Thomas, a genealogist, claimed at a symposium that theirs is a city where this shadow does not follow. A month before Kennedy’s assassination, Adele Stevenson, Kennedy’s UN ambassador, was hit in the head by a protester with a placard. After this, Neiman Marcus head Stanley Marcus asked the President to avoid the Dallas visit. Kennedy was assassinated on his way to address a public meeting in Market Hall, not far from downtown Dallas, in an open car, accompanied by a motorcade.
Observers say that following this incident, the whole of America turned once morest Dallas. Charges once morest Dallas are still pending in the incident.
Sixty years have changed Dallas in many ways. Democratic candidates have been winning majorities for decades. It is an isolated incident that the mayor recently became a Republican Party supporter. Dallas has grown tremendously in sixty years. The culture of Dallas has also changed.
Kennedy defeated his Republican opponent Richard Nixon in the 1960 US presidential election with the help of a narrow 2% point lead in Texas. 24 electoral votes in Texas were helped by the nomination of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson as the vice presidential candidate. But in Dallas Nixon won 62.16% of the vote to Kennedy’s 36.99%. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Lyndon Johnson and his wife faced the wrath of protesting women (the mink coat mob). This also happened in Dallas.
But the police discovered that Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s assassin, was not a great politician beyond being a communist. After retiring from the army, he went to the Soviet Union in October 1959 and returned to the US in June 1962.
He was accompanied by his Russian wife, whom he had met on a dance floor in Minsk. His wife clicked a photo of Oswald holding a Communist newspaper in his left hand and a mail-ordered rifle in his right at Dew Play on West Neely Street in Oak Cliff, Dallas. Oswald used this rifle to shoot Kennedy. He later shot and killed a police officer with a pistol worn on his waist.
The question of why Oswald shot Kennedy is still unanswered. Jack Ruby shot him dead within three days. In downtown Dallas, on November 21st and 22nd at the Hilton Home Wood Suites, the Sixth Anniversary of the Association of JFK, The Le Gussie of President John F. Kennedy, and a tour led by James Files. Files is a person who was with Lee Harvey Oswald around the area where the assassination took place. Both books are being released.
English Summary:
On the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Dallas is still in the shadow of the allegations
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