Remembering the JFK assassination: 50 years later

A visitor looks out onto Dealey Plaza from the Sixth Floor Museum located in the former Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald worked and a sniper’s rifle was found.  (LM Otero / Associated Press)

The Carcano rifle used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy on display at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas.  (Sixth Floor Museum / EPA)

An X marks the spot on Elm Street where the first bullet hit President John F. Kennedy near the former Texas School Book Depository on Dealey Plaza, mostly obscured by trees, in Dallas.  (LM Otero / Associated Press)

The seat at the Texas Theater in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas that Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in when police arrested him.  (LM Otero / Associated Press)

The eternal flame burns atop at the grave of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington.  (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

The grave of Jack Ruby in Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Ill. Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live television as Oswald was being transferred from Dallas police headquarters to the county jail two days after the assassination of President Kennedy.  (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Jacqueline Kennedy, left, caresses her husband’s face after he was sworn in as president, the youngest ever elected, on Jan. 21, 1961.   (Henry Burroughs / Associated Press)

Seconds after the fatal shot, a Secret Service agent climbs aboard the president’s limousine as the first lady, her husband slumped over in the backseat, crawls onto the trunk lid.  (Ike Altgens / Associated Press)

The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward Parkland Hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas.  (Justin Newman / Associated Press )

Police officers and newsmen crowd around the “sniper’s perch” from which President John F. Kennedy was shot in the Texas Schoolbook Depository.  (Los Angeles Times Archive / Associated Press)

Jacqueline Kennedy stands with her children, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., and brothers-in-law Ted Kennedy, left, and Robert Kennedy at the funeral of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.  (AFP/Getty Images)