⚔️📍 Dallas, Texas1963
President Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas
President John F. Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade through Dallas's Dealey Plaza, dying 30 minutes later at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested but killed before trial by Jack Ruby two days later.
Kennedy's assassination removed a president who had steered the U.S. through the Cuban Missile Crisis and ended an era of Cold War optimism, leading to Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War.
Outcome
Kennedy killed; LBJ assumes presidency; Vietnam escalates