Henry Barbosa Gonzalez Biography and Timeline

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Gonzalez was in President Kennedy's motorcade, he recalled rolling down the window as his car neared the Texas School Book Depository, then hearing three shots during the assassination.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Gonzalez's car proceeded to Parkland Memorial Hospital where upon seeing a blood-caked bouquet of roses in the rear of presidential limousine he initially believed Jackie Kennedy had been shot. There, he saw Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs.

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Kennedy, and President Kennedy's sheet covered body. Gonzalez helped place Kennedy's casket in the hearse that transported Kennedy to Air Force One

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

Reported to be unsettled by the effect that the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. had on the nation, Gonzalez pushed in 1975 for a House committee study

HSCA Creation

Supports the new committee investigation into the Kennedy and King assassinations.

Role range: 1976-1977

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

In 1976, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was created to investigate the deaths of President Kennedy and King, and Gonzalez succeeded Thomas N. Downing as its chairman in January 1977

HSCA Chairman

Succeeds Thomas Downing as chairman of the committee.

Role range: 1977-1977

HSCA Resignation

Resigns from the chairmanship after conflict with committee staff.

Role range: 1977-1977