The Greatest Leader of Our Time Has Been Striked Down

On November 24th Lee Harvey Oswald was being led by detectives through the basement of Dallas police Headquarters to be transferred to the county jail. While TV cameras rolled a mob connected nightclub owner named Jack Ruby step forward with a pistol He fired twice fatally wounding Oswald Kennedy's assassin was pronounced dead later that afternoon at Parkland Hospital, the same hospital Kennedy had been brought to just 48 hours earlier. As his killer lay dying Kennedy's body lay in state at the rotunda of the US Capitol the next day November 25th He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery It was the third birthday of Kennedy's son John Jr. Who solemnly saluted the casket two days later President Johnson gave his first speech to