The Daily Numbers: 50 years ago today that John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, Texas.
3 shots fired at the president’s motorcade.
2 of them struck the president, if you believe the Warren Report and do not think there was another shooter. I have never completely bought the notion that Lee Harvey Oswald did this acting alone.
12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, when the first shot rang out in Dallas.
1 p.m. CST, President Kennedy decleared dead in Parkland Hospital Trauma Room 1.
1:33 CST, official announcement that President Kennedy was dead.
1:22 CST, Manlicher Carcano military rifle found hidden amid some boxes in the Texas School Book Depository
6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald set up his sniper’s lair in a corner window.
1:15 CST, Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit shot dead after stopping Oswald on the street.
1:50 CST, Oswalk taken into custody in a Dallas movie theater.
2 days later, Oswald is gunned down in Dallas Police Station by Jack Ruby.
1,000 to 5,000, estimated number of books written about the Kennedy Assassination.
889, number of pages of the original Warren Report.
3561, as in Presidential Proclamation 3561, issued by new President Lyndon B. Johnson, issued declaring Monday to be a national day of mourning for the funeral of JFK.
24 hours, how long Kennedy’s casket remained in repose in the East Room of the White House.
300,000 people lined streets of D.C. as horse-drawn caisson carried casket of president from the White House to the Capitol.
250,000 people who paid their respects to JFK as he lay in state in the Capitol over 18 hours.
10 hours, how long some waited in line in freezing temperatures.
40 blocks, nearly 10 miles, how long the line stretched.
1,200 guests who crammed inside St. Matthew’s Cathedral for JFK’s the funeral Mass.
41,553,000 TVs in the U.S. believed to be in use during Monday’s funeral for JFK.
3:34 p.m. EST, casket containing the president’s remains is lowered into the grave in Arlington National Cemetery.
Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
I am one of those who - 50 years later - am still aghast that the NFL decided to play their regular schedule of games that Sunday.
I Don’t Get It: I would like to know what really happened and why that day in Dallas. I’m not sure I ever will.
Today’s Upper: It’s good to remember, to learn, and vow that it will never happen again.
Quote Box: “At that moment most of us didn’t understand the weight of it until we got home and saw our parents.”
- Donna Mann, then a high school junior, talking about hearing about the assassination in class.
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