What Day Was the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president later the same day aboard Air Force One.

The official Warren Commission investigation concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, a conclusion that has remained the subject of extensive public debate and numerous later government reviews ever since.

Kennedy's motorcade route through Dealey Plaza had been published in local newspapers in the days before the visit, a detail later cited in various analyses of how the assassination was planned.

The assassination led directly to the Presidential Protection Assurance Act, quickly passed by Congress to make attacks on the president a federal crime, a gap in prior law exposed by the event.