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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F.…

CHAPTER II. THE ASSASSINATION 28

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Planning the Texas Trip 28 Advance Preparations for the Dallas Trip 29 Preventive Intelligence Activities 29 The Luncheon Site 30 The Motorcade Route 31 Dallas Before the Visit 40 Visits to Other Texas Cities 42 Arrival at Love Field 42 Organization of the Motorcade 43 The Drive Through Dallas 46 The Assassination 48 The Time 48 Speed of the Limousine 49 In the Presidential Limousine 49 Reaction by Secret Service Agents 50 Parkland Memorial Hospital 52 The Race to the Hospital 52 Treatment of President Kennedy 53 Treatment of Governor Connally 56 Vice President Johnson at Parkland 56 Secret Service Emergency Security Arrangements 57 Removal of the President’s Body 58 The End of the Trip 59 Swearing in of the New President 59 Return to Washington, D.C. 59 The Autopsy 59
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1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1 3. CHAPTER II. THE ASSASSINATION 28 4. CHAPTER III. THE SHOTS FROM THE TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY 61 5. CHAPTER IV. THE ASSASSIN 118 6. CHAPTER V. DETENTION AND DEATH OF OSWALD 196 7. CHAPTER VI. INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY 243 8. CHAPTER VII. LEE HARVEY OSWALD: BACKGROUND AND POSSIBLE MOTIVES 375 9. CHAPTER VIII. THE PROTECTION OF THE PRESIDENT 425 10. CHAPTER I 11. episode and the fact that her husband still owned the rifle. She went 12. 1. The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor 13. 2. The weight of the evidence indicates that there were three shots 14. 3. Although it is not necessary to any essential findings of the 15. 4. The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor 16. 5. Oswald killed Dallas Police Patrolman J. D. Tippit approximately 45 17. 6. Within 80 minutes of the assassination and 35 minutes of the Tippit 18. 7. The Commission has reached the following conclusions concerning 19. 8. The Commission has reached the following conclusions concerning the 20. 9. The Commission has found no evidence that either Lee Harvey Oswald 21. 10. In its entire investigation the Commission has found no evidence of 22. 11. On the basis of the evidence before the Commission it concludes 23. 12. The Commission recognizes that the varied responsibilities of the 24. 1. A committee of Cabinet members including the Secretary of the 25. 2. Suggestions have been advanced to the Commission for the transfer 26. 3. Meanwhile, in order to improve daily supervision of the Secret 27. 4. The Commission recommends that the Secret Service completely 28. 5. The Commission recommends that the Secret Service improve the 29. 6. The Commission recommends that the Secret Service continue its 30. 7. The Commission believes that when the new criteria and procedures 31. 8. Even with an increase in Secret Service personnel, the protection of 32. 9. The Commission recommends that the President’s physician always 33. 10. The Commission recommends to Congress that it adopt legislation 34. 11. The Commission has examined the Department of State’s handling 35. 12. The Commission recommends that the representatives of the bar, law 36. CHAPTER II 37. 11. RAILROAD OVERPASS (TRIPLE UNDERPASS)

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