on Elm. On the corner of Elm and Houston was the large, ominous Texas School Book Depository, where the fatal shots were later accused of being fired from. When the Presidents car turned west on Elm and crossed the Depository, three shots were fired at the motorcade. The President was struck by a bullet that entered at the base of his neck, just right of his spine and exited under the lower left portion of the knot in the Presidents tie. A second bullet struck Kennedy in the rear base of his head, causing the fatal wound. Texas Governor Connally, riding two cars behind the President, was also hit. The bullet hit the Governor on the extreme right side of his back, just below the armpit. The bullet exited below his left nipple and hit him again on the left wrist. Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman saw that the President had been hit and instructed the driver to get the President to a hospital immediately. Parkland Memorial Hospital was the closest hospital, just four miles away. Awaiting Doctors met the presidential car and immediately began an attempt to resuscitate the dying President. At 1:00PM, just thirty minutes after the President had been shot, Kennedys heart had stopped and was pronounced dead. Vice-president Johnson left Parkland Hospital after being notified of the Presidents death and traveled back to the Presidential Plane at Love Field under close guard. Mrs. Kennedy and the Presidents body followed and boarded the plane shortly after Johnson. At 2:38PM, with the plane on its way back to Washington, DC, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the thirty-sixth President of the United States. On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson created an investigation commission to evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding the assassination and the subsequent killing of the alleged assassin and to report its findings to him. Chief Justice Earl Warren headed the commission that consisted of six other members in...
