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J.F.K    Lives

Event in history.

November  22. 1963.

President Kennedy  came to Dallas  because he needed the south to   win  reelection in 1964.


In the 1960S  Dixiecrat's were  against the  civil rights  movement.While  civil rights activist

wanted to change  segregation  Law's that had been  in place since reconstruction.furthermore,

many considered president Kennedy a mere  bystander in the civil rights  movement.

However.

Taking up up the ad mintration:s time was the Berlin wall go in up in 1961,  Cuban missile crisis in

1961 while   the  spread  of  comm unisism   was a issue in the .  President Kennedy

understood  his Chance's  of winning the  1964 election increased if the  he could win the quoth and

the civil rights activist at the same time.




President  Kennedy   place his arm around his wife and joked."This must not be the 62% of

Texans that vote for Richard Nixon  in 1960.
The happy mood was interupted by gunfire. Governor  John  Connolly a  ex
perinced deer hunter, knew the sound all too well it was the sound  of high powered  a  rifle going off.
The governor turned  his head and ad he did so, he saw president Kennedy shot in the left

shoulder then he  was also shot but in the throat.

Both Ellie and  Jacqueline Kennedy grab ed their  respective husband"s to their side.

One last shot  was fired but not before secret service agent Gerald Blaine  climbed from the back

of the president"s car and acted as a human shield for the president.