Good morning, Whitewater.
Saturday will begin with areas of fog giving away to mild temperatures, with a high of forty-five. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, for 9h 29m 31s of daytime. We’ve a new moon today.
On this day in 1963, Pres. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Here’s the initial account of the assassination, as reported in the New York Times:
Dallas, Nov. 22–President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today.
He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade.
Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was riding in the third car behind Mr. Kennedy’s, was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States 99 minutes after Mr. Kennedy’s death.
Mr. Johnson is 55 years old; Mr. Kennedy was 46.
Shortly after the assassination, Lee H. Oswald, who once defected to the Soviet Union and who has been active in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, was arrested by the Dallas police. Tonight he was accused of the killing.
Oswald, 24 years old, was also accused of slaying a policeman who had approached him in the street. Oswald was subdued after a scuffle with a second policeman in a nearby theater.
President Kennedy was shot at 12:30 P.M., Central standard time (1:30 P.M., New York time). He was pronounced dead at 1 P.M. and Mr. Johnson was sworn in at 2:39 P.M.
Astrobiologists remain curious about the possibility of ocean life beneath the icy surface of the Jupiter’s moon Europa. Kevin Hand of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains: