Explore 1,220 historical events and records for United States of America in 1963.
Sorted by month and day. Records with no month are shown last. Showing 40 of 1,220 unique records.
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
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
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.
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.
of times".
Truly went outside the Texas School Book Depository to watch President Kennedy's motorcade pass through Dealey Plaza.
After the fatal shot, Mrs. Kennedy moved onto the rear portion of the limousine as Secret Service agent Clint Hill climbed aboard.
Observed a small wound in the lower front of Kennedy's neck and an extensive wound to the head.
Described the small neck wound but stated that its appearance alone did not establish whether it was an entrance or exit wound.
Later official investigations did not establish that Sturgis was present in Dealey Plaza when President Kennedy was assassinated.
Reported that he did not see another distinct hole in Kennedy's head during Parkland treatment.
Hosty later explained that Oswald had not been referred to the Secret Service because the FBI file contained no presidential threat from him.
The Warren Commission did not identify Sturgis as a participant in President Kennedy's assassination or as one of the men detained near Dealey Plaza.
Potts reported the O. H. Lee registration back to Fritz, giving the interrogation team another identity detail to question Oswald about.
After officers reported the rooming-house registration, Fritz asked why Oswald was living there under the name O. H. Lee.
At 2:38 p.m. Johnson takes the oath of office on board Air Force One just before it departed Love Field
Johnson takes the oath of office on board Air Force One just before it departed Love Field
Responded to the Parkland emergency area as an oral surgeon after notice that President Kennedy was en route.
Performed the wrist operation from approximately 4:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.
Truly reported Oswald's unexplained absence to Dallas police during the early investigation at the Texas School Book Depository.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre shortly after police began searching the area for the man suspected of killing Tippit.
Fritz asked Oswald to account for his location when the President was shot, beginning detailed questioning of his movements inside the Depository.
At 7:10 p.m. on November 22, Dallas police formally advised Oswald that he had been charged with murdering Patrolman J. D. Tippit.
McDonald approached Oswald's seat and ordered him to stand as officers closed in on the suspect identified by Brewer.
Truly told Baker that Oswald worked in the building, after which Baker allowed Oswald to remain and continued the search.
Hosty immediately retrieved the Dallas FBI file on Oswald after learning that Oswald had been arrested.
Hosty took the Oswald file to Special Agent in Charge J. Gordon Shanklin as the Dallas FBI office organized its assassination investigation.
Brennan saw Oswald on television then later the same evening Brennan identified Oswald as the person in a police lineup who most closely resembled the man in the window, but Brennan said he was unable to make a positive identification
During the trip from the theatre to police headquarters, Bentley examined identification from Oswald's wallet after the prisoner initially refused to provide his name.
After 2 p.m., Hosty learned that the suspect arrested in Oak Cliff had been identified as Lee Harvey Oswald.
Truly provided police with information identifying Oswald as the Depository employee who could not be accounted for after the shooting.
Truly determined that Oswald was absent from the Depository after the assassination while most other employees remained or returned to the building.
Oswald's reaction to Hosty's presence during interrogation led Hosty to associate Oswald with the unsigned note previously delivered to the Dallas FBI office.
Brewer met the officers inside the theatre and identified the man he had followed from the nearby shoe store as the suspicious patron.
Paine told investigators that most of the Oswald family's possessions were stored in her garage.
Stovall participated in collecting documents, film, correspondence, and other possessions from the Paine residence for examination by investigators.
The FBI report on Oswald's New Orleans FPCC activity reached a CIA counterintelligence special-investigations office on the day Kennedy was assassinated.
Rose joined Stovall and Adamcik in the investigation at Ruth Paine's residence after Fritz sent detectives to examine property associated with Oswald.
Day examined the long handmade paper bag found near the southeast sixth-floor window and preserved it as evidence from the suspected firing position.
Dallas Police administered paraffin tests to Oswald's hands and right cheek in an attempt to detect residues associated with recently firing a weapon.
Generated from the World History Database historical_events table. Identical display records are collapsed; descriptions otherwise retain the stored text. Coverage and source quality vary. Check primary and specialist sources before citing individual historical claims.