PHOTO ARCHIVE IN DALLAS. John Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline on November 22, 1963.
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The United States government yesterday lifted the official secret that weighed on 1,491 documents relating to the death of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas (Texas) in 1963.
The archives consist of intergovernmental reports and communiqués that are now accessible to the world through the website of the US National Archives, although they do not include all documents held by the Government on this matter.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was 46 years old and serving his first term as president of the United States when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963 by receiving several gunshot wounds while traveling in a presidential delegation on the occasion of an official visit to the state of Texas.
For those shots Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, who two days later, when he came to testify for those events, was assassinated by Jack Ruby, owner of a nightclub in the city of Dallas.
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had acted alone in the murder. However, the ten years that he was living in the Soviet Union generated broad and controversial conspiracy theories about the assassination.
Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in the presidential car in Dealey Square.â € ‹He was the fourth US president to be assassinated (with Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield and William McKinley) and the eighth to die in office. its functions.
That day, at 11:40 a.m., Air Force One landed at Dallas Love Airport, after a short 13-minute flight from Fort Worth. The presidential entourage boarded a Lincoln X-100 (codenamed SS-100-X by the secret service), which was launched towards downtown Dallas.
In the back seats Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline were located. At the corner of Houston and Elm streets, the entourage must make a 120-degree turn to the left, forcing the limo to slow down in front of the Texas School Book Store.
At a distance of 20 meters, only the first shot of the three that Lee Harvey Oswald was supposed to have fired was fired. It is estimated that at that time the procession was going at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour.
After the shooting, the Lincoln hurriedly left the scene. “The rest of the way I was hugging John, holding his head to prevent his brain from popping out,” Jacqueline would later report.
After a frantic run, Kennedy was transferred and admitted to Parkland Hospital. Although there was no hope, Drs. James Carrico and Malcom Perry did not hesitate to try the impossible.
To rekindle his pulse and breathing, they decided to perform a tracheostomy, taking advantage of the gunshot wound to Kennedy’s throat, the only one visible, in addition to the horrible damage to his head.
It was useless, because even if his vital signs had been returned, he had half a brain outside his skull and there was no longer neuronal activity, as neurosurgeon Kemper Clark would verify.
About 40 minutes later, all attempts were abandoned and 1:00 p.m., Dallas time, was agreed as the time of Kennedy’s death.
Following the autopsy, which was performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Kennedy’s body was prepared for burial and transferred to the White House and displayed in the East Room for 24 hours.
The Sunday following the murder, draped with the American flag, he was transferred to the Capitol, where hundreds of thousands of people visited the coffin.
Finally, representatives from 90 countries attended the funeral on November 25 at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, from where he was transferred to Arlington Cemetery, where his remains continue to rest.
The funeral was officiated by the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Richard Cushing, Kennedy’s personal friend, who had married John and Jacqueline, as well as baptizing their two children.
