Assassination

On Nov. 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in the afternoon, the youngest elected president of the United States was shot twice in Dallas, Texas, and was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. At 2:38 p.m., the famous picture was snapped of then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office on Air Force One beside newly widowed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in her blood-stained jacket.