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Governor John Connally in the Presidential Limousine shortly before the Assassination .]]
The '''). Kennedy was Fatal ly Wound ed by Gunshot s while riding in a presidential Motorcade within Dealey Plaza . He was the fourth U.S. President to be Assassinate d, and the eighth to die while in office.

An official investigation by the Warren Commission was conducted over a 10-month period, and its report was published in September 1964, concluding that the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald , an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza. A later official investigation by the House Select Committee On Assassinations (HSCA) was conducted from 1976 to 1979. It concluded that Oswald assassinated Kennedy "probably... as a result of a conspiracy". The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of Kennedy Assassination Theories .


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