JFK was murdered while riding in the presidential limousine in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The trip was intended to act as a smoothing out of relations between the liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough and conservative John Connally. But as the motorcade wound round the city's streets, Mr Kennedy was shot once in the back and once in the head.
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A major controversy ensued, with many claiming the event had been carried out by the US' own security services in a covert operation or that Communists were to blame.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who was working as an order filler at the Texas School Book Depository — a building with the motorcade passed — was quickly identified as the assassinator and arrested.
Mr Oswald maintained his innocence throughout, claiming he was a "patsy" and had been framed.
