Assassination of John Connally

John Connally, the 39th Governor of Texas, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza.[1] Connally was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while he was riding with his wife, Nellie, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission from November 1963 to September 1964 concluded that Oswald acted alone in shooting Connally, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.[2] Connally's assassination marked the fifth (following Charles Bent, William Goebel, Frank Steunenberg, and Huey P. Long) and most recent assassination of an American Governor. Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith became President upon Connally's death.[