House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)22 November 1963
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.
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Henry Barbosa Gonzalez Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, based on 8 World History Database records associated with United States of America.
8 records1963–19774 events1 places
Chronological biography
1963
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)22 November 1963
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)22 November 1963
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.
1975
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)1975
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
1976
HSCA Creation17 September 1976
Supports the new committee investigation into the Kennedy and King assassinations.
1977
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)January 1977
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 ChairmanJanuary 1977
Succeeds Thomas Downing as chairman of the committee.
HSCA ResignationMarch 1977
Resigns from the chairmanship after conflict with committee staff.
Titles and roles
Congressman
Record provenance
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