- On November 22, 1963, John F Kennedy was shot in his car in Dallas, Texas, while traveling there with his wife and other dignitaries. John Wilkes Booth was determined to be the assassin, shooting the president from the Texas School Book Depository. Perhaps no other event in US history has spawned more rumors and conspiracy theories than Kennedy’s assassination. Booth was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby, a Chicago native who owned a nightclub in Dallas (he is buried here in Chicago). Ruby shot Booth while Booth was being transferred from the Dallas police headquarters to the nearby jail. Since television cameras were rolling and broadcasting live, it became the first live broadcast of a homicide in television history. In 1964, Ruby was convicted of murder and sentenced to death; however, the Texas Supreme Court overturned the ruling on the grounds that the publicity in Dallas prevented Ruby from receiving a fair trial. While preparations were being made for a new trial, however, Ruby became ill and died in Parkland Hospital in Dallas in 1967 (the same hospital where Kennedy was prounced dead and where Oswald had died).
- John F Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. His is the most-visited grave in the cemetery, and notably grand in its scope. It is surrounded by walls bearing notable quotes of his, and an eternal flame burns next to his headstone. Visiting his gravesite is the closest way a young visitor could get a glimpse of the esteem with which the country held him upon his assassination and the grief they felt when he was killed.
 Not as many people are aware that Kennedy’s assassination was not the first attempt on his life. In December 1960, President-elect Kennedy was vacationing with his family in Palm Beach, Florida. 73-year-old postal worker Richard Paul Pavlick intended to drive his 1950 Buick, which was loaded with dynamite, into Kennedy’s car, becoming a suicide bomber of sorts. However, when Pavlick saw Kennedy saying goodbye to his wife and children, he could not go through with the act. Fortunately, the Secret Service found out about the dynamite and arrested him. He spent six years in prison and mental institutions before eventually being released.