JFK Assassination – November 22, 1963 (Friday) -Timeline-60 years ago
Question> Is a timeline pre-determined by destiny or determined moment by moment with good and bad luck or determined after the fact? >Your answer depends on your perception.
7:23 AM >Lee Harvey Oswald gets a ride to work at the Texas School Book Depository by Buell Wesley Fraizer on Friday morning. (On Thursday night, Lee Harvey Oswald stayed with his wife, Marina who has a room inside Ruth Paine’s house in Irving, Texas.) Buell Wesley Fraizer asks Lee Harvey Oswald about his long, thin, paper wrapped package and Lee Harvey Oswald responds, “Oh, just some curtains.”
9:30 AM >President Kennedy reads the newspaper, “The Dallas Morning News”. He sees the infamous "black border" full page advertisement that accuses him of treason. He also reads a prediction from Richard Nixon that President Kennedy could be dropping Vice-President Johnson from the Democratic election ticket.
10 AM >No divine intervention today as the morning misty drizzle wet weather cleared up. Presidential adviser Kenny O'Donnell coordinated with service agents Roy Kellerman and Win Lawson who authorized the bubbletop removal from the presidential limo during the motorcade tour through Dallas.
10:40 AM >President Kennedy’s motorcade departs Hotel Texas in Fort Worth for Carswell Air Force Base.
11:20 AM >Air Force One departs Carswell Air Force Base for Dallas, Texas.
11:38 AM >Air Force One arrives at Love Field in Dallas.
11:44 AM >President Kennedy and his wife and Texas Governor Connally disembark Air Force One and are greeted by Vice President Johnson. The motorcade cars were already lined up in order earlier that morning.
11:50 AM >Multiple co-workers see Lee Harvey Oswald on the second floor of the book depository eating lunch.
11:59 PM >President Kennedy’s motorcade departed Love Field after President Kennedy and his wife take time to shake hands with many enthusiastic supporters and started the 10 mile tour through downtown Dallas. The motorcade route proceeds to take a left turn from the south end of Love Field to West Mockingbird Lane and continued through to Main Street in central Dallas.
12:29 PM >President Kennedy’s motorcade turned right (westbound) onto Houston Street and entered Dealey Plaza facing directly while approaching the Texas School Book Depository. President Kennedy's limo turns onto Elm Street and drives past the Texas School Book Depository. A man is standing near the Stemmons Freeway sign with an opened umbrella, giving rise to the "umbrella man" conspiracy theory. The open umbrella without rain is thought to signal the green light for execution. (A closed umbrella is known to signal “abort”.)
12:30 PM >The first shot is fired, missing President Kennedy. A fragment from the bullet or debris from the street may have possibly hit James Tauge, who is watching the motorcade in Dealey Plaza.
12;30 PM >The second shot is fired, hitting President Kennedy in the throat causing him to go into a “Thornburn's position”. (Two hands with clenched fists near his throat with outstretched elbows in parallel line with his hands.)
12:30 PM >The third shot is fired, hitting the President Kennedy in the front side of his head, causing a portion of his head behind his right ear to blow out. Right after the third shot is fired, Sheriff Bill Decker orders Dallas police officers to the railroad tracks behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll.
12:33 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald left the Texas School Book Depository via the front door after getting a Coca Cola from the building’s soda machine and after briefly being detained by Dallas police officer Marion Baker and Depository superintendent Roy Truly in the second-floor lunchroom. Police Officer Baker let Lee Harvey Oswald exit after Roy Truly identified Oswald as an employee. Lee Harvey Oswald was also seen by a secretary as he crossed through the second-floor business office. Lee Harvey Oswald also walked past NBC's Robert MacNeil, who is looking for a phone to call in the shooting.
12:34 PM >The first United Press International bulletin is published on the newswire stating: "Three shots were fired today at the president's motorcade in downtown Dallas.”
12:36 PM >President Kennedy, suffering from gunshot wounds, is admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital trauma room. Malcolm Perry, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a vascular surgeon, was the first to treat President Kennedy. Doctor Perry performed a tracheotomy followed by cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed along with another surgeon. Other doctors and surgeons worked frantically to save President Kennedy’s life.
>Secret service agent Roy Kellerman, who is in charge in Dallas, calls the head of secret service Jerry Behn to report that JFK has been shot.
>Dr. Charles Crenshaw notes there is a large wound on the back of the president's head as well as a small hole in his throat that is used to perform a tracheotomy in order to open up President Kennedy's airway.
12:40 PM > CBS News anchorman, Walter Cronkite interrupted the soap opera “As The World Turns” and announced the first national television report of President Kennedy’s shooting.
12:45 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald got onto a bus seven blocks from the Texas School Book Depository. The bus isn't moving much because of traffic jams near Dealey Plaza. Shortly after boarding the bus, Lee Harvey Oswald gets off and gets into a taxi cab driven by William H. Whaley that takes him back to his boarding house where he changes clothes.
>According to the Warren Report, at 12:45 PM, a police bulletin report was issued for a suspect that perfectly fit Lee Harvey Oswald’s description. The police bulletin is based on the testimony of Howard Brennan, who said he was standing across from the Book Depository and saw a standing white man, about 5 feet’10 inches and slender, fire a rifle at President Kennedy’s motorcade from the sixth-floor window.
1:00 PM >President Kennedy is officially pronounced dead and Father Huber administered the last rites to the president.
>Lee Harvey Oswald arrived at his boarding house located at 1026 North Beckley Avenue after a short walk from the taxi drop off point.
1:04 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald left his boarding house rental residence, went outside, and stood at a NORTHbound bus stop according to the testimony of Lee Harvey Oswald’s landlady housekeeper Earlene Roberts.
1:06-1:15 PM >Police officer J. D. Tippet is shot and murdered near the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue at a place nine-tenths of a mile away to the SOUTH in the quiet residential Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. Mrs. Higgins, a witness, stated she heard a gunshot at 1:06 PM, and proceeded to go outside, saw police officer Tippit lying in the street and a man running away with a handgun whom did not match the description of Lee Harvey Oswald. (Warren Commission report claims police officer Tippit was killed at 1:15 PM.)
1:35 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald buys popcorn at the Texas Theater (playing the film, ”War is Hell”) according to the testimony of Warren Burroughs, concession stand operator.
1;45 PM >Police start to search the theater. The lights are raised and officer Nick McDonald spots Lee Harvey Oswald in the seats. Police officer McDonald walks up to Lee Harvey Oswald who resists arrest. Police officer McDonald punches Lee Harvey Oswald in the face giving Oswald a black eye.
1:50 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald was taken out the front door after his arrest in the Texas movie theater where a crowd and many police cars awaited him. (According to James W. Douglass, the Texas movie theater is a designated rendezvous point and a few minutes later a second unidentified person of interest is secretly taken out the back door of the movie theater and later absconded with CIA escort out of Dallas on a military aircraft on the afternoon of November 22, 1963.)
2:00 PM >President Kennedy's body is removed from Parkland Memorial Hospital and driven to Love Field airport. The removal occurred after an angry confrontation between President Kennedy's special assistant Ken O'Donnell backed by secret service agent Roy Kellerman against Parkland medical doctors including medical examiner Earl Rose, along with a justice of the peace. Secret service agent Roy Kellerman vehemently had an argument with Dallas County medical examiner Dr. Earl Rose. The medical examiner argued that the autopsy must be performed before the body is taken from Dallas, Texas. Vice President Johnson orders the body to be released, but the medical examiner refuses. Finally, medical examiner Dr. Earl Rose is overridden by Dallas district attorney Henry Wade, who only agrees to release the body if Admiral Dr. Burkley, President Kennedy's private physician, promises to stay with the body until it is put in the casket for the final time. The removal of President Kennedy's body was illegal according to Texas state law because it occurred before an official forensic autopsy examination could be performed by the Dallas coroner.
2:01 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald arrived at the homicide and robbery office on the third floor of city hall in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald responded, "Why should I? I haven't done anything to be ashamed of", when asked if he wants to hide his face from news reports.
2:07 PM >The New York stock exchange now closes, not to reopen until Tuesday, Nov. 26. The stock market has ONLY slightly dipped 24 points after the news of President Kennedy’s assassination.
2:10 PM >Abraham Zapruder arrived at WFAA-TV in Dallas and gave an interview about his motion film. Over 10 years later, investigative researchers Robert Groden and Dick Gregory present the ‘first-ever’ US network television showing of an edited video version taken from the original Zapruder motion picture film on the ABC late-night television show ‘Good Night America’ (hosted by Geraldo Rivera on March 6, 1975).
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2:13 PM >Police find a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book depository.
2:47 PM >Air Force One with President Kennedy’s body departs Love Field for Washington, D.C.
3:00 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald's first interrogation has started. Lee Harvey Oswald’s positive paraffin test is used as evidence that he has fired a gun. Lee Harvey Oswald is primarily questioned with the killing of police officer Tippit. Lee Harvey Oswald has not been questioned with killing President Kennedy yet.
4:00 PM >FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called Robert Kennedy to tell him "we have the man."
>Lee Harvey Oswald waits for his first suspect lineup attended by Helene Markham, a witness to police officer Tippit's murder. While waiting, Lee Harvey Oswald is searched and five bullet cartridges are found in his pocket.
>Jack Ruby, who owns ‘The Carousel Club’, stopped by the police station for the first time. Jack Ruby is able to walk around the police station freely because many police officers are familiar with him since they frequently visit his club.
4:30 PM >Parkland Memorial Hospital doctors from trauma room one fill out forms that document their observations in the emergency room. The conflicting reports from professional doctors led to confusion and distrust.
>Dr. Marion Jenkins says there was a large hole on the right side of Kennedy's head so large, the cerebellum had protruded from the wound.
>Dr. James Carrico, the first doctor to enter the trauma room, noted a large wound located in the right occipital-parietal area and one small penetrating wound in the middle of the neck.
>Dr. Charles Baxter said the right temporal and occipital bones were missing and the brain was on the table.
>Dr. Kemp Clark, who pronounced Kennedy dead, noted two external wounds. Both the cerebral and cerebella tissue were extruding from the wound.
>Dr. McClelland stated that "the cause of death was due to a massive head and brain injury from an entry gunshot wound of the front left temple." Dr. Marion Jenkins later supported this statement.
6:20 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald's second interrogation starts in Captain Fritz's office. At this point, police investigation detectives are still only interrogating Lee Harvey Oswald about the shooting death of police officer Tippit. Lee Harvey Oswald yells to the press, "I didn't shoot anyone!" as he is taken out for his second lineup with other suspects. Cecil McWatters, the bus driver who picked up Lee Harvey Oswald seven blocks from the Texas Book Depository Building, identifies Lee Harvey Oswald. Cecil McWatters states that Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing a jacket, contradicting the Warren Commission finding. (Some time later, Cecil McWatters recants his police testimony during his testimony to the Warren Commission and states he was wrong when he selected Lee Harvey Oswald in the suspect lineup.)
7:05 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald is charged with "murder with malice" in the killing of police officer J.D. Tippit.
7:50 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald is interrogated for the third time and then taken for his third suspect lineup. J.D. Davies identifies Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who unloaded a pistol in the vicinity of police officer Tippit’s shooting. Immediately following the lineup, Lee Harvey Oswald's finger and palm prints are taken.
9:00 PM >Witness Buell Frazier and his sister arrived at the homicide and robbery office. They both testify they saw Lee Harvey Oswald take a package with him to the Texas School Book Depository. Lee Harvey Oswald is subsequently arrested and further interrogated.
11:26 PM >Captain Fritz signed the document charging Lee Harvey Oswald with the murder of President Kennedy.
Subsequently, Judge David Johnson rules that Lee Harvey Oswald "voluntarily and with malice of forethought killed John F. Kennedy by shooting him with a gun."
November 23, 1963 at 1:35 AM >Lee Harvey Oswald is officially told he has been charged with President Kennedy's assassination murder.
November 24, 1963 at 11:21 AM >Before live television cameras, Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner with alleged mafia ties, in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters upon his transfer to an armored car that was to take him to the nearby county jail. Police detective Billy Combest asked Oswald, "Do you have anything you want to tell us now?" Oswald shook his head. Lee Harvey Oswald, now unconscious, is put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where doctors tried to save President Kennedy.
November 24, 1963 at 1:07 PM >Lee Harvey Oswald is officially declared dead.