page_title: 1963 in the United States
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1963 in the United States / Events / November
caption_attribution_description: Polaroid photograph of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, taken an estimated one-sixth of a second after the fatal head shot. (Friday, November 22, 1963, Elm Street, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas)
context_page_description: Events from the year 1963 in the United States.
context_section_description: November 2–4 – 1963 Freedom Ballot, a mock election organized to protest and combat the systematic disenfranchisement of blacks in Mississippi.
  November 10 – Malcolm X makes his "Message to the Grass Roots" speech in Detroit.
  November 16 – A newspaper strike begins in Toledo, Ohio.
  November 22 – John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, President John F. Kennedy is shot to death, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President. All television coverage for the next three days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.
  November 23 – The Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio.
  November 24
  Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas on live national television. Later that night, a hastily arranged program, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts, featuring actors, opera singers, and noted writers, all performing dramatic readings and/or music, is telecast on ABC-TV.
  Vietnam War: President Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.
  November 25 – President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation do not have class on that day, and millions around the world watch the funeral on live television.
  November 29 – President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
caption: November 22: President Kennedy assassinated
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