Tell us what you were doing on Nov. 22, 1963. All materials contained on this site are copyright and can't be republished, reused or broadcast without the express written permission of the copyright holders. This is the story of the assassination in the words of the people who were there. The recollections come from interviews by The Dallas Morning News in 1983 and 1988 and from documents at the Lyndon B. Johnson library and other archives. Those quoted are identified by titles they held at the time of the assassination.
All times are Dallas time.
The following accounts were part of a special section on the Kennedy assassination that appeared in The News on Nov. 20, 1988.