JFK assassination: These archive photos show the chaos in Dallas 59 years ago

On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy flew from Fort Worth, where they had appeared at a chamber breakfast, to Dallas Love Field, where they got into a motorcade for a parade through downtown.

These photos were taken by Fort Worth Star-Telegram photographers covering the Kennedys’ visit and the aftermath of the assassination in Dealey Plaza.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot Kennedy, was killed by Jack Ruby two days later and buried on Nov. 25. Reporters had to serve as pallbearers.

The photos below also show scenes from inside the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository and from outside Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was rushed.

[MORE: See behind-the-scene photos from Kennedy’s Fort Worth visit]

[MORE: Check out other historic photo galleries from the Star-Telegram archives here]

This story was originally published November 22, 2022 at 5:00 AM with the headline "JFK assassination: These archive photos show the chaos in Dallas 59 years ago."

Matt Leclercq

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Matt Leclercq is senior managing editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He previously was an editor at USA Today in Washington, national news editor at Gatehouse Media in Austin, and executive editor of The Fayetteville (NC) Observer. He’s a New Orleans native.