The flag-draped casket of President John F. Kennedy lies in state in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)
Lee Harvey Oswald is led down a corridor of the Dallas police headquarters for questioning in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy. (Associated Press)
An eternal flame burns at the grave of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
A visitor looks out onto Dealey Plaza from the Sixth Floor Museum located in the former Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald worked and a sniper’s rifle was found. (LM Otero / Associated Press)
The Carcano rifle used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy on display at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. (Sixth Floor Museum / EPA)
An X marks the spot on Elm Street where the first bullet hit President John F. Kennedy near the former Texas School Book Depository on Dealey Plaza, mostly obscured by trees, in Dallas. (LM Otero / Associated Press)
The front pages of seven British national daily newspapers in carried the news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (Associated Press)
Warren Commission photographs of the so-called magic bullet, which was determined to have passed through President Kennedy’s neck and then caused extensive injuries to Texas Gov. John Connolly before being found intact on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy and Connolly were treated. (Associated Press)
The seat at the Texas Theater in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas that Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in when police arrested him. (LM Otero / Associated Press)
The eternal flame burns atop at the grave of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)
The grave of Jack Ruby in Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Ill. Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live television as Oswald was being transferred from Dallas police headquarters to the county jail two days after the assassination of President Kennedy. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket as it passes on a horse-drawn caisson during funeral ceremonies in Washington on Nov. 25, 1963. Behind John Jr. stands his uncle Robert F. Kennedy, mother Jacqueline Kennedy, uncle Edward M. Kennedy and sister Caroline Kennedy. (Associated Press)
Jacqueline Kennedy, left, caresses her husband’s face after he was sworn in as president, the youngest ever elected, on Jan. 21, 1961. (Henry Burroughs / Associated Press)
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy ride in an open limousine through downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Moments later the president and Texas Gov. John Connally, seated in front of Kennedy, were shot by a sniper. (Associated Press)
The president and first lady smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas. Minutes later the president was assassinated as his car passed through Dealey Plaza. (PBS image)
Secret Service agents stand on the running boards of the car following the president’s limousine as it nears Dealey Plaza. (Associated Press)
Seconds after the fatal shot, a Secret Service agent climbs aboard the president’s limousine as the first lady, her husband slumped over in the backseat, crawls onto the trunk lid. (Ike Altgens / Associated Press)
The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward Parkland Hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. (Justin Newman / Associated Press )
Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the oath of office to succeed President John F. Kennedy on Air Force One hours after the assassination. At his side was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, still in her blood-spattered suit. (Getty Images)
Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is shot at point-blank range by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on Nov. 24, 1963. Police Det. Jim A. Leavelle, left, who was handcuffed to Oswald, recoils as Ruby fires. (Bob Jackson / Dallas Times-Herald )
Police officers and newsmen crowd around the “sniper’s perch” from which President John F. Kennedy was shot in the Texas Schoolbook Depository. (Los Angeles Times Archive / Associated Press)
The funeral cortege including a horse-drawn caisson bearing the casket of President John F. Kennedy crosses the Arlington Bridge toward Arlington National Cemetery in this view from the Lincoln Memorial. (Associated Press)
Jacqueline Kennedy stands with her children, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., and brothers-in-law Ted Kennedy, left, and Robert Kennedy at the funeral of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. (AFP/Getty Images)
