Who remembers where they were on November 22, 1963? , The fateful day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. My mother was only three years old and she remembers that day. She was in the living room of her childhood home when a crying neighbor called my grandmother and told her the news. The phone call was the start of a chain reaction that threw the entire house into uncontrollable chaos. The event had this effect on the entire nation. Men and women, Democrats and Republicans, adults and children mourned the loss of their fallen leader. President Johnson, the Warren Commission, and all the fascinated observers of the world closely scrutinized that day and the events that followed. The current facts are still hotly contested today. Politicians have made careers on this subject. Conspiracy theorists went all out writing books, accusing everyone of planning the assassination. The purpose of this document is to inform you of the known facts of the event, including the reason for President Kennedy's visit, the parade through downtown Dallas, and the emergency trip to the hospital. The Warren Commission's report to the president will be summarized and many conspiracy theories will be established. President and Mrs. Kennedy arrived in Dallas at 11:40 a.m. CST on Friday, November 22, 1963. The couple was in San Antonio, the first leg of a two-day cross-state trip, where they met with Vice President Johnson and Texas Governor Connelly. The trip to Texas was planned in hopes of reinvigorating the president's popularity in Texas after he was hurt in the 1960 election. Until mid-morning, cloudy skies had threatened to cancel the parade. motorcade style planned for the day. The procession would cross ...... middle of paper ...... very young nation. It represented the end of America's innocence. We were no longer the children of naivety. It forced the country to wake up, rub its blank eyes and discover the world as it really is: a cold, harsh reality that we were not prepared to face. America only had a few years to spend with President Kennedy while he was in the spotlight. There was a love and hate relationship between the American people and President Kennedy. Everyone loved to see him and hated to see him go. Works Cited Posner, Gerald. Case closed. New York: Random, 1993. N. pag. Print.Summer, Anthony. Conspiracy. New York: McGraw, 1980. Print. The Warren Commission “Report of the Presidential Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1964. N. pag. Print.