John F. Kennedy, while in an open limousine with first lady Jacqueline, was shot by sniper's bullets, on November 22, 1963.

Kennedy was riding in a motorcade slowly through downtown Dallas when the two bullets struck him in the head. He was dead upon arrival at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old Dallas citizen accused of the slaying, was killed two days later by local night club owner Jack Ruby.

The following reporters covering the assassination are Ron Jenkins of KBOX in Dallas, Pierce Ulman of WFAA and Phil Hampton, KBOX news director who reports from Parkland Memorial Hospital.

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