6 ways to learn about JFK on the 62nd anniversary of his assassination

DALLAS — It’s been 62 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the event still looms large in Dallas.

On Nov. 22, 1963, after a breakfast in Fort Worth and a short flight to Love Field, Kennedy traveled through downtown on his way to a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart.

His motorcade reached Dealey Plaza and was driving past the Texas School Book Depository at 12:30 p.m. when he was shot by a sniper. He was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital just over an hour later.

Government investigations concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a sixth-floor window on the depository building’s southeastern corner.

The event is still fresh in the minds of many who lived through it. But as the decades pass, that number dwindles. Here are some ways to learn about JFK