It was 54 years ago on November 22, 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dalles, Texas .  The President and the Governor of Texas John Conneley were riding in a motorcade. when Harvey Oswald  shot both the President and the Governor from the second story of the Texas Book Depositary.

President Kennedy died a short time later at Parkland Hospital. The Governor later recovered from the wounds.