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Motorcade Route

United States · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1963–1978Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1963

John Fitzgerald Kennedy19 November 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The motorcade route is published is published in both Dallas newspapers. The motorcade route is described in both Dallas newspapers

Howard Leslie Brennan22 November 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Across the street from the Texas School Book Depository, notifies police that as he watched the motorcade go by, he heard a shot come from above, and looked up to see a man with a rifle make another shot from a corner window on the sixth floor

Howard Leslie Brennan22 November 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Arrives at about 12:23 p.m., and while waiting for the motorcade, he looked up and saw a man appear at an open window at the southeast corner of the sixth floor, 120 feet (37 m) from Brennan, and observed him leave the window "a couple

Howard Leslie Brennan22 November 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Brennan, a 44-year-old steamfitter, watches the presidential motorcade from a concrete retaining wall at the southwest corner of Elm and Houston streets in Dealey Plaza, where he had a clear view of the south side of the Depository Building.

Howard Leslie Brennan22 November 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Watches the presidential motorcade from a concrete retaining wall at the southwest corner of Elm and Houston streets in Dealey Plaza, where he had a clear view of the south side of the Depository Building.

Howard Leslie Brennan22 November 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

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Victoria Adams1963

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Victoria Adams was watching the motorcade from a window on the fourth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. She believed the sound came from toward the right of the building, rather than from the left and above as it must have been according to subsequent information disseminated by the news services

1978

Gordon Arnold1978

Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

To the tight of the "Badge Man" some researchers claim there is also a second person, self-proclaimed witness Gordon Arnold, who claimed in 1978 that he was filming the motorcade and heard a shot fired from his left

Names involved

Gordon ArnoldHoward Leslie BrennanJohn Fitzgerald KennedyVictoria Adams

Provenance

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