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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
The President and Mrs. Kennedy were riding with Governor and Mrs. John Connally. The Governor was hit but neither Mrs. Kennedy nor Mrs. Connaly were.
Even with all the press coverage in Dallas, no TV cameras were located along the critical spot in the motorcade. The only film of the assassination was taken by a private citizen, Abraham Zapruder.
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The Zapruder film 
Mary Ann Moorman was standing on the opposite side of Elm Street from Mr. Zapruder and snapped a Polaroid picture just after the President was shot.
Mr. Zapruder can be seen at the extreme left center of the picture and the "grassy knoll" is in the background.
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Judge Sarah T. Hughes administers the Presidential Oath of Office to Lyndon Baines Johnson aboard Air Force One in route from Dallas to Washington D.C. on November 22, 1963. Mrs. Johnson is on his right and Mrs. Kennedy is on his left.
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Clay Shaw was the only man to be tried for the assassination of President Kennedy. The trial lasted 35 days and it took the jury less than an hour to find him not guilty.
David Ferrie was also thought to be involved.
Ferrie died on February 22, 1967, less than a week after news of Garrison's investigation broke in the media. Garrison would later call Ferrie, "one of history's most important individuals".
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Conspiracy theories about the assassination arose immediately but were
fueled by this news conference by Jim Garrison on July 15, 1967. 
Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK loosely used historical facts to build an assassination conspiracy.
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