Hundreds in Dealey Plaza Salute JFK
Exactly 34 years after his assassination, hundreds of people gathered in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza to honor former President John F. Kennedy, who was murdered Nov. 22, 1963, as he was driven in an open-top limousine through the plaza. About 500 people stood on the infamous “grassy knoll”--from where some believe Kennedy’s true, unidentified killer fired the fatal shot--and held a moment of silence at 12:30 p.m. in what has become an annual ritual. The official investigation conducted by the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed Kennedy with rifle fire from the Texas School Book Depository.
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