Who remembers where they were on November 22, 1963? , The fateful day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. My mother was only three years old and remembers that day. She was in the living room of her childhood home when a tearful neighbor called my grandmother and gave her the news. The phone call was the start of a chain reaction that sent the entire house into uncontrollable chaos. The event had this effect on the entire nation. Men and women, Democrats and Republicans, adults and children mourned the loss of their fallen leader. President Johnson, the Warren Commission, and every fascinated observer in the world would have carefully examined that day and the subsequent events. The events of the day are still bitterly contested today. Politicians have made a career out of this case. Conspiracy theorists have had a field day writing books, accusing everyone of planning the assassination. The purpose of this article is to inform you of the known facts of the event, including the reason for President Kennedy's visit, the parade through downtown Dallas, and the emergency trip to the hospital. The Warren Commission report to the President will be summarized and many conspiracy theories will be established. President and Mrs. Kennedy arrived in Dallas at 11:40 a.m. CST on Friday, November 22, 1963. The couple had been in San Antonio, on the first leg of a two-day trip across the state, where they met with Vice President Johnson and Governor of Texas Connelly. The trip to Texas had been planned in hopes of reinvigorating the president's popularity in Texas after he was injured during the 1960 election. By mid-morning, cloudy skies had threatened to cancel the motorcade-style parade planned for the day . The procession would travel... middle of paper... very young nation. It represented the end of America's innocence. We were no longer children of naivety. It forced the country to wake up, rub its virgin eyes, and experience the world for what it really is: a cold, hard reality that we were not ready to deal with. America had only a few years to spend with President Kennedy while he was in the spotlight. There was a love-hate relationship between the American people and President Kennedy. Everyone loved to see him and hated to see him go. Works Cited Posner, Gerald. Case closed. New York: Random, 1993. No. pages. Print.Summer, Anthony. Conspiracy. New York: McGraw, 1980. Print. The Warren Commission "Report of the Presidential Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1964. Page No. Press.